It's very prevalent in Somalia but has anyone heard of anyone doing secret marriages in the West?
I have seen a few men that did this, most of these men wouldn't have done this in a patriarchal system, but in the current system we live in today that emasculates the males in order to destroy the social as well as family fabric, power has been handed to the women to take the males to the cleaners.
A lot of them are scared of this, many of them are useless to start with and don't deserve any better, useless men marry useless woman, which results in a dreadful life of perpetual turmoil and torments, to seek solace he has no choice but Qudba siro, so he isn't denied access to his children.
I know of fathers who have reformed and repented but lived turbulent life's with wicked wife's but were patient for more then a decade under a barrage of insults and public emasculation without seeking Qubo Siro, they waited patiently until all of their children grew up well beyond puberty & most of them got married.
They built themselves a nice little home in Somalia and married 16 year old's, they all as a result look decades younger with radiant faces, while that old hag began to develop all sorts of diseases through shock. what goes around comes around.
I spoke to a lot of those men who did this, or married second wife's (or had the desire to), in 90% of the cases it's because of the wretched physical condition of the women primarily obesity which physically repulses them but they were too cowardice to tackle this issue very early on which is their fault.
In 10% of the cases were obesity isn't an issue, it's emasculation and a lack of respect, contrary to popular opinion it has nothing to do with old age, this is a code word for "obesity" when used because no men will openly admit the truth.