{"id":15167,"date":"2013-03-21T03:03:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T03:03:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-03-21T03:03:49","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T03:03:49","slug":"Indian-woman-has-five-husbands-and-likes-it-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=15167","title":{"rendered":"Indian woman has five husbands and likes it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A northern Indian woman is giving  Sister Wives star Kody Brown and his four wives a run for their money by wedding a whopping FIVE husbands \u2014 all of whom are brothers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rajo Verma, 21, lives in a one-room shack with all of her spouses, sleeping with a different one each night on a rota,<\/strong> and admits that she doesn\u2019t know which one is the father of her young son, reports the Sun.co.uk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInitially it felt a bit awkward. But I don\u2019t favor one over the other,\u201d revealed Rajo, who married her first and only legally wed husband, Guddu, in an arranged marriage four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all have sex with her but I\u2019m not jealous. We\u2019re one big happy family,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>The unusual twist on the controversial practice of <strong>polygamy is a long-held custom in the small village Rajo resides in and requires that a bride also marries her hubby\u2019s brothers<\/strong>, in this case &#8211;  Bajju, 32, Sant Ram, 28, Gopal, 26, and finally Dinesh, who married her last year when he turned 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI consider her my wife and sleep with her like my brothers,\u201d explained Guddu\u2019s eldest sibling Bajju.<\/p>\n<p>In an arrangement that harks back to pre-feminist days in the Western world, Rajo stays home and cooks, cleans and looks after 18-month-old Jay while her husbands go out to work in nearby Dehradun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mother was also married to three brothers so when I got wed I knew I had to accept all of them as my husbands,\u201d explained Rajo as she described the ancient tradition of polyandry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI sleep with them in turn. We don\u2019t have beds, just lots of blankets on the floor \u2013 I get a lot more attention and love than most wives!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now this is more like it! 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