Thus if one person is hospitalized the partner is recognized and allowed to make appropriate decisions when necessary. I was married for 26 years. I took these rights for granted. If my husband was in intensive care and only the family was allowed in, I would have been devastated to be kept out because someone didn't recognize Methodist marriages. When my mother was dying in the hospital there were countless decisions that had to be made, the six of us children gave much input, but no one doubted that it was Dad who had the final say.
Marriage is a series of lessons and challenges.
I personally can not imagine choosing to get married to more than one person, often one partner seemed to many, but then the beauty is, I will never have too. This is a free will country. I have the Constitutional right to do as my heart dictates. Neither should my opinion interfere with the rights nor freedoms of others that may chose group marriages. Marriage is a choice, freely made between adults.