By Joe Darger

ISBN-10: 0062074040

ISBN-13: 9780062074041

ISBN-10: 0062074075

ISBN-13: 9780062074072

He runs his personal enterprise and coaches Little League. She drives a minivan, and she’d be misplaced with no her trusty BlackBerry. They pass on date nights. Their little ones attend public faculties, play activities, and take track classes. They dwell in a roomy condominium within the ’burbs. They’re approximately as mainstream as households come....They’re additionally polygamists. for many years, polygamous households were compelled to conceal their way of life. males probability prosecution and financial blacklisting, and ladies face social isolation and defective assumptions approximately what it capability to reside as a sister spouse. yet Love occasions 3, the first-ever memoir of a polygamous family members, is a riveting inside of examine a global such a lot folks can rarely think, revealing the intense workings of the Dargers’ day by day lifestyles. autonomous Fundamentalist Mormons, the Dargers grew up in polygamous households, and by the point they have been in highschool, they knew they desired to reside the main themselves. yet in a hugely strange scenario, even for his or her tradition, either Alina and Vicki expressed curiosity in Joe while. They eventually courted him jointly, and married him at the similar day. Valerie, Vicki’s dual sister, joined the wedding ten years later. The Dargers flow the dialog clear of baby brides, Warren Jeffs, and the FLDS to extra mainstream polygamists who willingly input into plural relationships as adults. instead of dwelling in remoted groups, self reliant Fundamentalist Mormons are just like a regular American family—except for his or her relations constitution. during this intimate, within tale, the Dargers clarify why they selected this direction regardless of the pressures of conserving their relationships mystery and the jealousy and private demanding situations that clearly occur, why they suspect polygamy will be an authorised way of life, and, finally, why they desire that through revealing their lifestyle in public, legislation that criminalize their way of life may well switch. Written within the voices of the 4 mom and dad, Love instances 3 is the tale of 1 guy, his 3 other halves, and their twenty-four teenagers as they reside out their religion in a global of prejudice, false impression, and worry, together with a bankruptcy at the sister spouse dynamic, one from Joe on how he juggles his 3 precise romantic relationships, and a bankruptcy from 3 in their kids, referred to as “My 3 Moms.” regardless of the chance of felony motion, the Dargers be aware of that it’s time to counteract Hollywood’s sensational interpretation and proper the overall public’s false impression of polygamy with the reality. Now, for the 1st time, Joe, Alina, Vicki, and Valerie Darger raise the veil on their so-called taboo lifestyle.