Monday’s essay covered what a divided moment does to a child. This episode takes the conversation somewhere Monday couldn’t, into why two loving parents can end up in such different places on the exact same decision, and what it actually takes to stop assuming the worst about each other.
Read this week’s essay:
In this episode:
I share what was really going on in my head, and in my husband’s, the day we disagreed in front of our son, and why we were both right.
I talk honestly about the parents who undermine each other on purpose, and the marriage problem hiding underneath it.
And I walk you through the one mindset shift, rooted in the Quran, that can turn a defensive reaction into a real conversation with your spouse.
This episode is for the Muslim parent who’s ever felt second guessed by their spouse in front of their own kids, who’s ever assumed the worst about a decision they didn’t understand, and who needs to hear that disagreeing with your spouse doesn’t mean you’re failing as a team. You’re doing better than you think.
You’re doing better than you think.
With du’a,
Gulnaz, Halal Parenting.
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Reference:
“O believers! Avoid many suspicions, ˹for˺ indeed, some suspicions are sinful. And do not spy, nor backbite one another. Would any of you like to eat the flesh of their dead brother? You would despise that!1 And fear Allah. Surely Allah is ˹the˺ Accepter of Repentance, Most Merciful.”
(Qur’an Al-Hujarat 49:12)
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