When I think back on my first year in a plural marriage there is so much I could talk about- probably way more than anyone is interested in reading in one sitting! It took me a long time to decide on what I thought most people would be interested in reading about. I tried narrowing it down to a few topics, or maybe just a few experiences that provided growth. How do you condense a year’s worth of experiences into a few paragraphs and still have it be interesting to those reading? So I decided to try and do a little of all of it, realizing that there will
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I’ll start this with a brief summary of part one and then pick up where I left off last week. To summarize: I was born and raised as faithfully as any youth is in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I was exposed to very negative views of plural marriage as a child and discovered later that there was also a happy and blessed side to it. It wasn’t always just a trial and a hardship. I began to struggle with my testimony in relation to the LDS Church and the original teachings of the “New and Everlasting Covenant.” A few years after this, I began
“A certain man had two sons: And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that
My wives have already given you a fairly thorough introduction to our family.
Shortly after we got married, Tami, Colton and I were working through all the changes and figuring out how we all fit together in this newly chosen lifestyle. We all knew that communication was needed to help us through our struggles. We still had to figure out how to do that, how to understand each other, since we all had different communication styles, as well as different personalities.
Well, its kinda hard to write about yourself, but here we go… Hi everyone, My name is Sophie Winder. I’m Colton’s second wife, and we have been married for just over a year. I work a full time job, and am a midwifery apprentice. In marrying Colton and Tami, I have become a third generation plural wife.
What a crazy week it has been. Life has a way of getting away from you. At least it seems to for me.I have always seemed to struggle with balancing all the different things of life. I would be a terrible juggler, but I digress. The real thing I wanted to talk about in today’s post is also the real reason you are reading this and that is to learn more about why I decided to live in a plural marriage.
The beginning of a journey… My name is Tami Winder and I am Colton’s first wife. Colton and I have been married for 8 years, we have one child together so far and are hoping for more soon. I work part time but the job I love most is being a mom. A few years ago we came to the decision that we should live plural marriage, and not long after that we met Sophie.