{"id":938,"date":"2016-06-02T03:30:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T08:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/?p=938"},"modified":"2026-08-01T19:20:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T00:20:43","slug":"meet-my-husbands-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2016\/06\/02\/meet-my-husbands-girlfriend\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Meet my husband&#8217;s girlfriend&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, that\u2019s what I heard on Sunday when I was back in a village in my people group, sitting with my friend Minata.\u00a0 There was another young lady there, with her one-year-old daughter, and after a while Minata asked me, \u201cDo you know this young lady?\u201d\u00a0 When I said that I didn\u2019t, she told me, \u201cThis is my husband\u2019s girlfriend.\u00a0 The baby is my husband\u2019s baby.\u00a0 Pretty soon they\u2019ll get married and she\u2019ll be my co-wife.\u00a0 You can come back for the wedding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine?\u00a0 Coming from an American point of view, it\u2019s rather incomprehensible.\u00a0 But for them, it\u2019s the way life is, whether they like it or not.\u00a0 It is also something I\u2019ll have to be careful of, though, since that day I also got several comments from ladies in the village, saying that I\u2019d make a good co-wife for Minata.\u00a0 After already being introduced to her husband\u2019s girlfriend, I don\u2019t think that they were completely joking.\u00a0 Pray for wisdom in relationships and that people will understand that I do NOT plan on being someone\u2019s second or third wife. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, that\u2019s what I heard on Sunday when I was back in a village in my people group, sitting with my friend Minata.\u00a0 There was another young lady there, with her one-year-old daughter, and after a while Minata asked me, \u201cDo you know this young lady?\u201d\u00a0 When I said that I didn\u2019t, she told me, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":945,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[448],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-ethnos360","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}