Chapter 13 focuses on the impact of polygamy on the lives and loves of elite Malay women in urban Malaysia. As polygamy is becoming increasingly prominent among a new class of urban elite men, the ‘threat of polygamy’ increases for elite women. Polygamy is sanctioned by Islamic law, yet its social and personal acceptability is ambiguous, and some men choose to keep their second wives secret. The possibility that their present or future husband might marry another wife, perhaps secretly, has fundamental implications for elite women’s relationships, marriages and kinship. Elite men and women may both use polygamy strategically, but whereas polygamy is often considered a status symbol displaying wealth and power for men, women generally experience it as disempowering.