"I think second wives are the forgotten people. "The ex-wife is seen as the victim - always," she says. At the time he was divorced with two children. One member, Clare Bamford, met her husband four years ago. For many of the women, Robertson says, the club has proved a marriage-saving lifeline. They can use the club's website for online chat and advice, go to monthly regional meetings and meet other members. The BSWC is only a year old, but it already has nearly 400 paying subscribers, according to Robertson. What she really wants to see is that crown knocked firmly off the first wife. Life as a second wife, she says, can be a tedious existence blighted by poverty, interminable fights over children and assets and a feeling of dread that the ex is just never going to go away. "And she wears that priority like a crown on her head." "In a divorce, priority is given to the first wife," says Robertson. In her view, Britain's army of second wives (about one in 10 families are now stepfamilies) have it tough and their lives rarely involve the catalogue of sassy goings-on followed by a happy ending that tend to feature in novels on the subject.
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