He married another woman without his wife's knowledge. Everything seemed to be going well until the secret of his double life was finally exposed.
It sounds like the storyline of a new Netflix series, a Lifetime movie, or a foreign soap opera, but this is an all-too-familiar scenario for some Muslim women living in the United States. Linked together by a common predicament; regardless of their background, country of origin, or economic status, these women have been forced into a polygamous relationship unexpectedly and unethically. Their only options are to remain in the marriage and face the intricacies of life as a co-wife sharing one man, or divorce, relinquishing their husband to his new family and redefining their lives as divorcees and/or single mothers.
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