Islamic marriage advice and family advice

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Family shuts me in a small room, I’m highly suicidal

My sister told me that even my brother in law had set up a plan where he will gather a knife, gun and gasoline and I choose how I want to go. At least I will have the honor in choosing how I can die.

No freedom given by parents

I have to finish college work and get married. But for me I want to travel I want to be on my own so I can take care of myself.

I’m being forced into a marriage – Please help me!

I expressed my feelings and they all told me that I either stick with this guy or I’ll end up being sent to my country in the Middle East to get married.

How can he deal with stubborn and oppressive parents?

My parents often refuse to talk to me for days, make angry faces, criticize, insult and embarrass me a lot in front of relatives and friends. I am given lectures usually about money, status, job opportunities and great worldly prospects. All this even though I am a person who is usually content with little and I have no big ambitions.

Should I give her more time or grant her divorce as per her wish?

I have learned that my wife has been abusing my mother and complaining about every little mistake of mine with full and negative support from her mother for past one year. I didn’t believe what I was reading, few things which i have done for my wife was actually instructed by her mother (ex: buying a diamond ring on our wedding anniversary, limit sending money to my widow mother).

A daughter, a wife and demands of life, sigh!

I am very sorry , extremely apologetic for writing out such a long post which is probably a pain for most people to read, but I desperately need someone to point out where I am going wrong, any personality flaws in me, and how I should tackle with these issues.

Husband vs Parents; how to find my happiness again?

I feel all this has started to affect our married life. We are always fighting, arguing, tired of carrying these emotional burdens. I am in a very sensitive position and often react negatively when he even texts a female co-worker doubting him. I need advice on how to find my happiness again. I want to love my husband without feeling angry at him for hating my parents and I want to love my parents without them hating my husband. I feel stuck in the middle, and don’t want my child growing up in this bitterness.

Are my parents allowed to force me to marry someone?

I’m the elder daughter of my parents. I have another younger sister. We don’t have any brother. We always tried to do everything what our parents wanted us to do. Every time my father used to tell me you can do this and you can’t do this. I didn’t have any opinion of my own. It is like what ever we do on our own will be wrong and bad for us.

Terrible relationship between parents and son

I love my parents both and my father is also my best friend. My father hits my mom beats her a lot. He has been that way all my life since I was really young. My mother once left the house for 7 months to get away from him. My father tried to burn down the house one time and I took the blame for it with the police. He did not tell me to I just did it to protect my father.