I forget, why is polygamy illegal??

Anyone who knows me knows that i am a big fan of Big Love. I finally secured and watched the second season and margene wants her husband to take a fourth wife because she wants a best friend to be there with her and to have as a sister or 'sister-wife' if you're up on the lingo.
Living out in the middle of no-damn-where, i sometimes pine for a friend also. If i were to be polygamous, i'd choose my best friend. But i can't say i'd be too cool with her sleeping with my husband. Even though, and thankfully if it were a real possibility, she doesn't want to have anymore kids anyway. But that's the way i'd want it...i'd want my best friend to live here, but i wouldn't want her to ever, ever, ever touch my husband... i've read a lot of "polygamy is natural" BS out there..if it's so natural to be polygamous, why then would i turn homicidal on my best friend if she were to share a marital bed with my husband?

The big polygamy issue for most people is this: Is it a choice or not? when i was married to a muslim, i was keenly aware that it was not, and if i didn't like it, then he just wasn't going to tell me about it. it's why he's and Ex.

But on a more logical note, There would be some pretty serious issues aside from bed sharing. I'd want the second wife to share my view of child-rearing, which i can't ever seem to find a woman who does. I don't accept whining and crying for things or power struggles out of kids...they are manipulative by nature and once they've got you figured out, you're as good as screwed, so you had just better be one who isn't easily manipulated. my policy is: if you cry for it or lie for it, you're definitely not getting it. too many women give in and their kids run all over them and it is so sad to see the kids put on their innocent child faces and get away with everything. If i had a wife, i would expect her to be aware of the rules of children and that we don't accept tantrums out of anyone over the age of 3. By then, they should have developed at least minimal negotiating skills, or at the very least the ability to say that they don't like something and maybe even why.

The bed situation...i know some people aren't cool with three in a bed, but to be honest, i'd like to have a blanket buffer so i actually got to keep some of it at night! My DH kicks it all down to the bottom of the bed so it would be nice to just pull it over to our side. But I would NOT be cool w/ the sex...especially if i had to sleep somewhere else..i went to a lot of trouble to find a nice bed, i'm not giving it up half-time: they can find someplace else.

See? i'm just too selfish and jealous to have a wife...i'd probably do some really childish things to make her life miserable so she'd either go away or know her place...and that's probably why it's illegal. So women don't get stuck with other women who would make life hell. I imagine it's harder to divorce two people when it's really only one of them that makes you crazy. What women really need doesn't seem to be polygamy, it seems to be that women need friendship with other women who have their own separate lives away from another woman's bed, home and husband.