‘MARRIAGE’ Archives
Does Your Marriage Need a Little Jump Start?
This is an awesome reprint of some notes found here: 50 Things You Need To Know About Marital Relations: Excerpted from Al Maghrib Institute’s “Fiqh of Love” seminar with Shaykh Waleed Basyouni. Great relationships don’t just happen; they are created. You have to work at it. If your job takes all of your best energy, your marriage [...]
Girls’ Night Out + Daddy Play Date… A match made in heaven!
Recently, some friends and I decided to get together for a girls' night out.. The only catch was, the night fell on the same night that our husbands got together and played basketball... So we made a plan to have the men take the children, we'd eat close by, and... eventually... we'd pick up the kids. As luck would have it, the guys didn't play [...]
A note to my husband… How to be the kind of ‘listener’ I need you to be
Yesterday I had a typical conversation with my husband.. Something had been bothering me, and I knew he didn't agree with me about the issue. Even I knew I shouldn't be so bothered, but, hey, I'm human... and I was bothered. What I needed was some acknowledgement that what I was feeling was understandable... I needed validation before I could [...]
E-mail… The Busy Wife’s Version of Couple’s Therapy
Recently I was talking with a group of girls about marriage... One of the girls was mentioning that her sister e-mails her husband whenever she has something really important she wants to talk about with him... And she raves about its effectiveness as a means of communication... What surprised me the most is that it seemed like most of the girls [...]
How To Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It: Do you shame your husband?
Recently, I started perusing a book titled, "How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It." I think the title is pretty self-explanatory. Instead of telling you what I think of the book, or what it says, I'd like to spend some time pulling out little kernels that I think you'll benefit from. Well, actually, it's the parts I [...]
Should we cut our husbands more slack?
Once upon a time, a happily married couple had twins. At first, life was grand. Husband would arrive home from work, hastily, to greet his growing new family. Wife thought she had it made, two beautiful children, and a husband eager to assist in their care. Fast forward. Husband comes home, tired, from a long day at work. He happily [...]
Are women hard to figure out? Or does a little go a long way?
After much delay, I've finally figured out the next topic to post - there's nothing like a nice vacation to make you think about how much more your husband could be doing for you! ;) So the following is the 'wife' version of the previous post "60+ Ways to Keep Your Spouses Love". (Original lists can be found on muslimmatters.org) It's so [...]
What a girl wants…Shopping List for Husbands
In response to our "Having Trouble Buying a Gift for Your Man", I received a lot of requests from the husbands to return the favor. So here goes.. I asked several sisters to list the top three things they would like to receive as a gift from their husbands .. These are their top ten answers: #10 - Techie toys #9 - Flowers #8 - A Purse (A [...]
Having Trouble Buying a Gift For Your Man?
I asked several brothers to list the top three things they would like to receive as a gift from their wife.. These are the top ten answers: #10 - A sentimental, thoughtful token. Something personal. (Isn't it sad that this is at the bottom of their list and probably at the top of ours!) #9 - What I like to call 'Boy Stuff'. (Sporting [...]
The Link Between Divorce and Men Who Help Around the House
Get ready ladies...this is going to be one of those posts that you will want to forward to your husbands, your friends' husbands, your husbands' friends, your married male cousins, your brothers, maybe even your dads or your sons...(did I miss anyone there??) Usually when we talk about what a guy can do to help improve his marriage, we focus on [...]
