Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife by Center Street

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Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife by Center Street Polygamist's wife
"Shattered dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife" is the autobiography of a woman raised in polygamy who then married into it as a teen and lived through it for almost three decades. Irene Spencer tells of the hardships she and her children endured within the confines of her polygamist sect and how she escaped from the lifestyle. The timing of my reading the book was incredible as I finished the book only a couple of days prior to the raid of the FLDS compound in Eldorado, Texas. It has given me a better insight into what is going on behind the news stories through various media concerning polygamists and their families.
Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife by Center Street Gripping Book
This book is really gripping and fast moving. As a woman in our day and age it is difficult to imagine why someone would go through this other than fear instilled during a fundamentalist upbringing. Coincidentally, I read it during the raid of the Texas polygamist sect and it reminded me that this is still ongoing and that is frightening.
Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife by Center Street Tough Woman Always Gives IN
How many times can one read that this woman was a person seen by others (and herself) as being fiesty, tough etc, and then reading over and over how she had given in to endless flattery and promises. She never won a major battle. Hard to get through...A better editing job might have helped.
Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife by Center Street A Great Read; An Incredible Life!
I couldn't put this book down....what an incredible life Irene has led. She's an inspiration to any woman who feels "stuck". She's a great writer too; a miracle in itself, given that she only had grade nine education. Just goes to show the strength of the human spirit when challenged to the limits. Wow.
Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife by Center Street It is well written, it's as if you were her friend listening to her life.
This book helped me immeasuabley. I was not in a polygamist relationship, but one where I continually found evidence of my husband's other women. Living with a cheater for years and years is much like living with a polygamist, but it's done in a clandestine fashion. Her book spells out the misery you live when with a constantly adulterous spouse. The strange illnesses, from his secret liasons with women with VD, the poverty, because the money is spent on himself and other women. The neglect of his household responsiblities because all his time is going to other women, his children who barely know him, because he rarely spends time with them. It is the same scenario, just a different setting. It too was married at 15, and at 15 I felt more like a 60 year old with all the heightened scene of the desperation of an ugly life that never got better, even though I tried for thirty years. All it did was infect my sons with his ugly misogynist attitudes. Her book was more honest about the emotional pain than I would ever have had the courage to convey. For putting her agony into words, she has done an oustanding service for women who live in the same desperate void of an endless black hole. I am so happy that she found love from a good man, she certainly deserves this.
Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife by Center Street Product Description
Irene Spencer did as she felt God commanded in marrying her brother-in-law Verlan LeBaron, becoming his second wife. When the government raided the fundamentalist, polygamous Mormon village of Short Creek, Arizona, Irene and her family fled to Verlan's brothers' Mexican ranch. They lived in squalor and desolate conditions in the Mexican desert with Verlan's six brothers, one sister, and numerous wives and children. Readers will be appalled and astonished, but most amazingly, greatly inspired. Irene's dramatic story reveals how far religion can be stretched and abused and how one woman and her children found their way out, into truth and redemption.