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3 wives in 3 different cities? Spouse's investigation uncovers others By L.L. Brasier
Christian wife says her and children's lives as they know it are over
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DETROIT — During a single week, the world of Through —Her husband of 10 years, Dr. —And in 2003 he had married yet another woman, a podiatrist in Equally astonishing, Mitchell, 48, a practicing Protestant who belongs to a Lutheran church with Miller, had converted to Islam in 2002, taken the Arabic name Mustafa and traveled twice to Mitchell, who operates several podiatry clinics in metro "I just thought he was working a lot of hours and away at medical conferences," Miller said in a recent interview at her attorneys' office in She is seeking an annulment from Mitchell and child support for their two children. A hearing is set for
She said she found him charming and mysterious. "He was like a big teddy bear," she said. "But very independent." She said Mitchell told her he once played for the They spent the next 10 years getting advanced degrees — sometimes living together, sometimes apart. She eventually earned a doctorate in education. He graduated medical school. Miller said she learned in 1997 that Mitchell had been having an affair with Miller, then 41, had two children shortly afterward. Mitchell eventually opened four podiatry clinics: two in But he was gone all the time and often not accessible by phone. She thought he was working hard to support their growing family, but still. Even on She came to accept her lonely life as a single parent. But in early 2009, she began therapy to help her deal with the death of her mother. Her therapist slowly encouraged her to examine her unusual marriage. So, in the last week of August, she logged on to the family computer and started looking. She found papers in Then she began sorting through her husband's cell phone numbers and said she found repeated calls to "She said, 'We have a problem here,' " Miller recalled. "She said, 'I think you're married to my husband.' " Mitchell, through his attorney,
The Canadian wife, Malik, who has a practice in Miller said she sometimes wondered whether her husband was having an affair. He was away from their An affair would have been something of a relief, considering what she uncovered about his two other wives and his religious conversion. "You think you know somebody," said Miller, 51, shaking her head in her attorneys' office during an interview last month. Mitchell's explanation, based on court records, is that it's all a big misunderstanding. He claimed he thought his divorce from And he said the Islamic wedding to Malik, with 100 people in attendance near "So he wants us to believe these were kind of like accidents," said Miller's attorney, Barker said his client should have followed up to confirm his divorce was final in The marriage to Malik, Barker said, was to "get her mother and father off her back. It's a case where no good deed goes unpunished." He said the paperwork for the Canadian marriage was never finalized. And, he said, Mitchell wants to maintain a loving relationship with Miller and their two children. "It's not reached But reconciliation is not likely, as far as Miller is concerned. For Miller, a former college professor, it means her life, as she has known it, is over for good. She said she plans to return to work and may even leave the state to start a new life with her children. Mitchell has been ordered to pay Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes what many in the media and Washington consider "must-reading". Sign up for the daily JWR update. It's free. Just click here. Interested in a private Judaic studies instructor — for free? Let us know by clicking here.
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