Today, I started a new job. Three of my Kenyan coworkers keep getting together and reminding me that having more than one wife is okay in their country. I've gotten 3 marriage proposals from married men so far. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I found out that after working in the same office for five years, I now work with three of my husband's ex-girlfriends. FML
Today, I met my husband's other wife. FML
Today, I met my wife's other husband. FML
Today, I tried hitting on the new receptionist at work. After a few flirtatious comments and subtly hinting that I thought she was bangable, she informed me that she's married to our boss. FML
Today, it was my first day at my new job. My new boss asked me if I was single. After telling him I have been happily married for 6 years, he fired me on the spot. FML
Today, I met a new guy at work who wouldn't stop hitting on me. We ended up on a six-hour shift together watching a pool, so we were wearing nothing but bathing suits when he began grabbing me inappropriately. When I confided in my female coworker about it, she told me that he was her husband. FML
Today, I discovered that my male coworker, who coincidentally shares my last name, has been telling everyone we're married. I'm 26; he's 58. FML
Today, I found out that the coworker I refused to leave my wife for is now happily married with someone else, while I'm now divorced. FML
Today, I got a new job where one of my co-workers is someone I have been in love with for over 5 years now. She's married but my feelings for her just won't go away. FML
Today, I was at a "Bring your family to work" event. I noticed my coworker brought his kids but not his wife, so I asked, "No wife today?" Everyone glared at me and he pointedly replied that she's married to someone else now. I had no idea. Now everyone thinks I'm an insensitive prick. FML
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Top comments
Rizzen 27
well thats officially ****** up. maybe go to your boss about this? or HR?
AnOriginalName 19
I would tell you to run away, but no matter how far or fast you run, they'll probably still catch up to you.
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Comments (51)
MrCareless 17
Well that must be an awkward situation :/, good luck OP
SamanthaThe1st 23
Try to let them down gently. Don't bash them for their practices, that's how they were brought up to be. Just remind them that they're not in Kenya anymore and that the laws are different.
buckdharma 38
Play by their rules and agree to marry all of them.
iAmPaul 49
No?
MountainGiant87 15
Newsflash guys, you're in the United States. It's not okay here.
kaytasha 18
Its a case of different cultures and all. Just because it is a strange culture doesn't make it illegal. Where i come from, polygamy is legal and accepted. However i personally do not subscribe to that sort of lifestyle. Its also a matter of choice.
Zomg_Okay 27
They're in the US, not Kenya. A strange culture doesn't make it illegal but being against that country's laws does.
mary_13 26
Whatever you say #45 whatever you say (eye roll). You can still have a binding ceremony it might not be "legal" but that does not mean it wouldn't be real.
Zomg_Okay 27
No need to be so condescending. You said yourself that "it might not be "legal"". That was my whole point, not whether or not it would be real.
mary_13 26
I apologize #82 you are right, by the time I got to your comment I was angry that everyone was being such bigots that when I looked at your comment I just went off. It is not "legal" I'm sorry for being mean about it.
raphanne_fml 33
#86 So much for saying you dont get worked up over nothing, uh?
Zomg_Okay 27
It's okay. :)
mary_13 26
#90 You again man you just don't quit do you, just like an STD. I am still the type of person to just laugh about things like this FML but not things like people actively targeting me personally or being racist, bigots or hateful of others cultures. I am a very laid back person but even I have my limits as I'm sure we all do.
ViviMage 40
Can wives have more than one husband?
Ihavegas 22
that would depend on the country you live in or the society around you.
Khaleesi_26 30
Yes that's called polyandry.
skittyskatbrat 19
In China and a few other countries, yes... There is a shortage of women in China to the tune of 50 million (1/7 the population of the entire USA!) and so it's becoming the norm in rural villages for brothers to have a single wife among them. In some Muslim countries, five wives is acceptable. In some of the offshoot "Mormon" groups in the US (not to be confused with the greater Mormon religion which is 1 wife, 1 husband) multiple wives is accepted. Just depends on where and who.
mary_13 26
I would love to have more than one hubby.As long as their hot ;)
BBeffedmylife 28
For some reason I first read this thinking you were a man. Makes more sense the second time around..
nemcali 34
Monogamy is not a requirement there so Stop being so judgemental and just say no. They will get the message eventually
Spark_Slicker 19
Some men don't get the message. Some men think that all you need to do is keep being persistent no matter how many times a woman tells them no, and that eventually she will give in. And It's not a matter of being judgmental if they know OP doesn't believe in doing that and they still constantly proposition her. Not to mention it's not even legal in US so they'd most likely be expecting her to move to Kenya should she say yes.
Dcm210 19
Talk to your wife and see if she's ok with it lol
mwangi101 15
I'm Kenyan and I've never met anyone with more than one wife. I bet they're joking and just laugh it off, when you get to know us, we're quite the comedians?