{"id":46009,"date":"2015-09-19T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=46009"},"modified":"2022-04-04T15:01:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T20:01:13","slug":"i-found-out-that-the-man-i-married-was-already-married-two-years-prior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/i-found-out-that-the-man-i-married-was-already-married-two-years-prior\/","title":{"rendered":"I found out that the man I married was already married two years prior"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>After my marriage to a boy, I came to know that he is already married to a girl two years before my marriage. In my country, marriage is a big deal in a girl&#8217;s life. I haven&#8217;t made any decisions regarding what I&#8217;ll do as I am already married to him. Please give me a better solution.<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>I assume that the young man you married did not divorce his first wife. If that is correct, then he is committing adultery by marrying a second wife. Your marriage, as far as God is concerned, is not valid. In most countries bigamy is not allowed, so even the secular laws would declare your marriage to be invalid. The only solution is to end this improper marriage.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: After my marriage to a boy, I came to know that he is already married to a girl two years before my marriage. In my country, marriage is a big deal in a girl&#8217;s life. I haven&#8217;t made any decisions regarding what I&#8217;ll do as I am already married to him. Please give me&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[66,167,533],"class_list":["post-46009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-adultery","tag-divorce","tag-polygamy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32099,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/does-this-mean-i-must-end-my-marriage\/","url_meta":{"origin":46009,"position":0},"title":"Does this mean I must end my marriage?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 6, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I have a multitude of questions that seem to be troubling me: I have been married to my wife for many years now and we have a child.\u00a0 She was previously married and divorced but not for any adulterous or fornication reasons. 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