num_pages: 376
description: This is the most unique story written about modern day polygamy and chronicles the teenage years and sixteen-year marriage of the author. Mary Mackert was born into a family with a history rich in the traditions of fundamental Mormonism. The author shares her private thoughts and feelings as a seventeen-year-old bride facing an arranged marriage to a forty-nine-year-old man that has five other wives. The forbidden love she has for a young man displeases her parents. Obedience and submission to her parents in all things is required for her to see heaven. While her young sweetheart is on a mission she succumbs to the pressures of her family and resigns herself to a marriage of religious duty to a man older than her father. She pressures her father to hurry the marriage arrangements for her true love will return and she cannot face him. She cannot look into his eyes and say that she does not love him. Witness the sorrow and grief of her wedding day. Experience the struggles of her sixteen-year marriage that spawned her courage to flee from this religious bondage. Two days after leaving her husband, she is abducted and locked in her bedroom. During the day-and-a-half she is a prisoner, her husband's attempts to persuade her to return include pleading, preaching, condemnation, and threats of blood atonement execution for her supposed indiscretions. The Sixth of Seven Wives is an inspiring account of one woman's courage to flee from the secret society of her birth and enter the world she'd been taught to fear to obtain a better life for her children.
title: The Sixth of Seven Wives: Escape from Modern Day Polygamy
publisher: xpolygamist.com