I watched a man lose his entire family because he chose a second wife based on a thirty-minute conversation and a pretty smile.

He came to me six months after his second marriage, desperate.

His first wife had moved out. His teenage son wouldn't speak to him. His business partners were asking questions. Everything he spent twenty years building was crumbling.

"I don't know what happened," he told me. "She seemed perfect. She said she understood polygamy. She said she respected my first wife. ...