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by Shireen Patel (Author)
Is your marriage starting to feel more of a burden than a blessing? If so, I'm here to tell you, there IS a way out, and it's not divorce!
Muslim Marriage 101 is for couples that have hit a bump in their marriage (maybe even a mountain, that feels like pure misery!) and want a way out of the pain. It's a guide for Muslim couples to learn how to transform these conflicts into loving companionship and not the reverse!Most couples are trying their best to make things work but their efforts are done within a limited perspective founded by their experiences (sometimes personally, sometimes through watching others). Most often those perceptions are based on triggered events and are very unhealthy. Their behaviour becomes the complete opposite of steps towards a peaceful and loving marriage, even if it may feel like it's the "right thing to do."
Muslim Marriage 101 is like a giant pause button for your marriage and teaches you another way to respond and move within your marriage.
So, here's what you can expect to learn:
- Build your marriage from the bottom up with the principles given to us from the perfection of Islamic teachings that are found in the books of manners, not just rulings.
- Finally, understand what your wife actually wants, so you can stop running trying to fix things and feel broken when it just makes matters worse.
- Understand why your husband seems to not understand your needs and feelings even though you've explained it many times and now think he just doesn't care.
- Realize how and where your own triggers play a part in your marriage and why you're likely self-sabotaging.
- Learn to make your marriage a means of coming closer to Allah instead of the usual hardening inside, and feelings of weakened Imaan.
- Recognize Shaytaan's traps that keep you locked into negative thoughts, which breeds negative cycles of interaction, and feels like your marriage is a lost cause.
- Focus your time working on things that can actually change your circumstances, rather than keep talking about it until you're blue in the face only to feel deeply hopeless.
- Emotionally and mentally strengthen yourself with pro-active steps outlined at the end of most chapters so you can start applying small but transformative steps that will benefit your marriage, instead of work against it.
