Wifey Wednesdays: Practicing Self-Respect without Disrespecting Your Husband

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 […]

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Wifey Wednesdays: Overcoming Your Fear of Not Being Good Enough

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 […]

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Wifey Wednesday: Lessons and Goals for the New Year

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 […]

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Wifey Wednesday: 2 Simple But Effective Ways of Resolving Issues

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 […]

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Wifey Wednesday: The Importance of Taqwa in Your Marriage

I was listening to a lecture by Mufti Ismail Menk, and he mentioned something profound that became the basis for this post – that “taqwa is the cornerstone of a Muslim marriage”. Taqwa (technically taqwa-Allah) is known as the fear of Allah, but some scholars of Islam also describe it as the love of Allah […]

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Wifey Wednesday: Coping With the Different Weathers in Marriage

I didn’t want to write anything today. Because after spending the last few weeks on the not-so-bright side of marriage, I felt that I didn’t have the words to talk to other people about working on their own marriages. I’ve had some of those days where you question your reasons for getting married, and for […]

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Wifey Wednesday: Financial Independence in Marriage

This is the last post in a four-part series focused on a woman’s health in marriage. Please see previous posts here, here, and here. This is a topic that feels very personal to me because I know first hand about financial dependence in marriage. Do you know what it feels like to be totally dependent on […]

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HEALING EMOTIONAL WOUNDS

We all have things that have happened to us in our past that are affecting us one way or the other. We experience these issues daily which can be barriers in our daily activities. Sometimes even when we are aware of these wounds all we want to do is pretend nothing happened and pay less […]

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Wifey Wednesday: Your Marriage and Your Physical Health

This is the third in a series of four posts aimed at focussing on the wife in a marriage. You can read others here and here. Did you ever think that there is a relationship between your physical health and your marriage? An expert on family studies seems to think so. Studies have shown that […]

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