In this country, a second wife has the same rights as the first wife. This means she gets to enjoy all the things the first wife might have worked really hard at achieving, like supporting, encouraging and devoting her life to her husband and kids.

The first wife might have given up a possible enriching career because she loved her husband and wanted to build a life with him, and ensure a secure future for her children.

But things went wrong and now she is faced with the fact that she no longer comes first. Perhaps she never did, but at least her children were. But now, with the possibility of a second family, they might be relegated too.

There are laws to protect first wives but, in reality, these are not always enforced. When a woman has an affair, she loses custody of her children, maintenance and alimony. When a man has an affair, he just remarries and does not lose anything. And the law allows it.

Sadly, there is really nothing a woman can do except hope that her husband has enough love for her till the end of time.

But the smartest thing any woman can do is to have financial independence. Money gives you freedom, which no one can take away from you.

As for the little madam who has replaced you, there is always the possibility that her man will take a third wife, or fourth.

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