Sometimes you find yourself living with your in-laws, and if you are not careful it can feel like something out of an Indian soap opera. Domineering parents-in-law, disrespectful wife, or a husband who doesn’t know when to support his parents or his wife. In Islam, a husband is supposed to provide adequate accommodation for his […]
This is the second post in a series on in-law relationships. You can read the first here. It is a funny dynamic some of the things that happen in a marriage. Most times we do not want to admit it, but one of the leading causes of problems between a wife and her husband’s family […]
This is a first in a series of posts on in-law relationships. The status of a wife is clear in Islam, and so also is that of the mother. But in our society people often ruin marriages by trying to fight for the supremacy of the wife over the mother and vice versa. For the […]
I’m talking about the butterflies in your tummy. Those ones that made you so eager to walk down the aisle. The happiness you felt every time you saw or spoke with him. The warm feelings that the thoughts of spending the rest of your lives together brought to you. I’ve said before that the day […]
I think one of the most famous never-ending questions that married women get is how they balance their marriage with their jobs. Seeing as both are full-time jobs, I think people marvel at the way that a woman is able to handle it all. I don’t believe in the concept of ‘balancing it all’ because it […]
So…a little back story to this topic. Lady A had some issues with her husband, and couldn’t help but think about how her friend never has this same problem with her own husband. This comparison affected how Lady A saw her own husband, and ultimately it started affecting their marriage. By a stroke of faith, […]
Image credit: www.pexels.com There is this common misconception that a wife’s personal sense of self-respect cannot live successfully with the respect for her husband. This assumption is especially common when you think of culturally ingrained marriage advice like “a successful marriage happens when a woman lowers herself for her man.” By ‘lowering’, they mean respecting your […]
Many things worry us in marriage. We sometimes worry about much our spouse loves us, if he is going to take another wife, if he is having an affair, or if he thinks that we are good enough. A lot of these fears manifest themselves in form of insecurities within us, and what I have […]
As the year comes to a close and I reflect on accomplishments for this year, and what I hope to do next year, I can’t help but reflect on my marriage in the same way. Every end of the year, a lot of us make new goals for the New Year (even if we all […]
If I had to sum up my marriage in 2016, I will say that this is the year that I found the most effective ways of resolving issues. The minor squabbles, the major disagreements, resolving them and improving in our marriage depended on these two lessons that I happened to stumble upon. Pray about it […]
