Wednesday, October 29, 2008

How bad is the global economic crisis?

In India, Amar and Kundar Singh Pundir are brothers. They are very, very close and there is a special reason why. They live in Himachal Pradesh, India and they have a unique living situation. Kundar and Amar share Indira Devi as their wife. That’s right. They share their wife. What they call it is fraternal polyandry and a big part of the reason they are sharing the lady is purely rooted in economics. They don’t want to have to divide up the land that they own to too many people so they keep their inherited property among less people. If they had another woman, she would be taking their bread – literally. Here are some parts of the story from CNN:
In this difficult terrain there isn't enough land to go around. So, instead of finding separate wives and splitting up their inherited property, the brothers marry the same woman and keep their land together.
Wife Indira Devi says life with two husbands isn't easy.
"We fight a lot."
But like any married couple they fight mostly over mundane stuff, except there are three spouses instead of two.
And here is the sexual situation:
One thing they agreed on was the need to have children; They have three. So how does a married trio deal with sex?
"We make shifts, change shifts and sleep on alternate days. We have to make shifts otherwise it won't work," Kundan says.
"To run our families we have to do this, overcome the hurdles as well and then we have to control our hearts from feeling too much," Amar adds.
The other half of this situation is purely tradition. Her other relatives have two husbands too and it goes way back in time. So, I can’t knock that.

Well I guess you gotta do what you have to do by any means necessary, I really don't know what to say on this one.

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