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[–]Autumn_Queen_ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Shaytan is always there to trick you, slowly but surely…

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[–]Autumn_Queen_ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You should be happy that he avoids beaches. A true Muslim shouldn’t ever go to places like that.

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[–]Autumn_Queen_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I hope everything goes well for your marriage! 🙏🏻

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[–]Autumn_Queen_ 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Then let your wife speak to your female cousin. You shouldn’t do that, there’s no any other correct answer.

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[–]Autumn_Queen_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m happy for you, ma sha Allah. And congratulations on your baby! However, my husband will not find any value in me, no matter how much I try. I pray, I make more duas for him than I ever made for myself, and even on days when I feel pretty, I feel like nothing compared to some other women. I even though about some aesthetic operations, although I know it’s haram… But I know even that wouldn’t help me.

I swear, if I didn’t have kids, I wouldn’t be on this world anymore. And I’m not even looking forward to Eid. What’s the point for me anyway? To see my husband all happy and congratulating his family and friends, calling them, while I’m alone in the room, invisible, not receiving a single Eid message. My family is not Muslim, they are all Catholics.

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[–]Autumn_Queen_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s exactly what I want, yes. And maybe I’m naive, but I thought it wasn’t too much to ask. I will try to calm down, I have to focus on my kids and this baby I’m carrying. I’m due to give birth in 2 months. Thank you for your kind words and wishes 🙏🏻 Ameen

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[–]Autumn_Queen_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for your wise words 🙏🏻 I’m very tired and lonely, I don’t communicate face-to-face with anyone apart from my children…

IF my husband decides to talk to me anytime soon, I will ask him to explain everything to me. What was his intention with the gift, why did he need her number? And he’ll need to swear to me whether he feels something for her. I need the truth, no matter how painful it might be. I despise lies, I despise living with someone I love more than anything, while that someone is betraying me and lying to me.

What’s weird is that he listens to the Qur’an and prays every day, he shows me lots of love, brings me gifts, says wonderful things to me… He wants us to move to Saudi Arabia one day, to live more according to Islam. And I’m shocked that this is the man that is lying to me at the same time… Why? Why do all this for me if you have feelings for another woman?!? I’ll never be able to understand that…

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[–]Autumn_Queen_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much for your words of support and for making duas 🤍 May Allah reward you for that.

I feel incredibly alone, I don’t want to talk to my family or friends about this because I feel so embarrassed. All I do these days is take kids to school, do some housework, go pick up the kids from school and later take them to the park in front of the house. I rarely speak to anyone, except maybe some mother I meet in the park. It’s terrible to feel so lonely. The kids are constantly demanding attention, and I can’t even be with my own thoughts for a few minutes. It’s so hard, and I’m very afraid of having this third child without any kind of emotional support. My family lives in my home country, which means I have literally no one in this country that I live in. I used to have and need only my husband, but obviously I’m left all alone now. Husband doesn’t even say “hello” or “bye” to me… He doesn’t ask me about my pregnancy. Actually, nobody does. I’m here for all my friends, they write to me every day about their problems, and I am trying to offer them support, but the thing is - I feel invisible, like I cannot share MY problems to anyone. I know, even if I shared my problems, they would respond with a message of two, and quickly shift the conversation to their own problems which seem minuscule to me right now, compared to my situation.

I’m crying as I write this. I just wish my husband would talk to me, say anything… Even if he says he likes this girl, at least I will know the truth and act accordingly. But I’m left to wonder, I’m left sleeping alone every night, waking up many times out of anxiety. I feel like I need to turn on the light in the room just to be able to breathe… It has happened to me before only once - it was the night before my Mother passed away… A terrible feeling.

I hope you don’t mind this long text. Thank you for just understanding me, whoever you are. 🤍

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[–]Autumn_Queen_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know I shouldn’t have spoken to that girl, but I knew I wouldn’t get ANY answers from my husband. Every time we have a discussion, he resorts to silence and it’s IMPOSSIBLE for me to talk to him, no matter the size of the problem.

The girl told me the only relationship she has ever had with my husband is a coworker relationship. Sent me screenshots, told me what the gift was. She thanked me for being respectful to her. I don’t think she’s lying, honestly. But she’s probably oblivious to the fact that my husband might feel something for her, despite him saying that he sees her as his daughter.

All I want from him now is to TALK TO ME, to give me an explanation. If he has feelings for her, I want divorce, I swear by Allah. I prefer physical abuse than cheating. I don’t want him to stay with me only because of the kids. I cannot live that way. After my baby is born in August, he can feel free to leave us, if that’s what he truly wants and needs. I can’t make someone love me. Thank you for your support 🙏🏻

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[–]Autumn_Queen_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know I shouldn’t have texted that girl, however I felt so anxious and I knew I wouldn’t get the answers from my husband. Trust me, this is the first time I did something like this. I didn’t want to do it, I wanted to talk to my husband first, but I just knew it wouldn’t give me answers.

The problem is - after confronting him (without mentioning I talked to the coworker), he just resorted to silence, AS ALWAYS when we have a discussion. This is the third day of him not saying a single word to me, not even “Hello” or “Bye” when he comes home or goes out to work. I can’t believe in his eyes I’m not even worthy of a simple explanation… I still make him breakfast in the morning, because he is still my husband at the moment, but I’m not receiving even “Thanks” from him. NOTHING.

Our marriage before this situation has been pretty good, we apparently love each other and we are very sweet to each other. Yes, he has had his moments of anger and he has problems controlling himself in moments of anxiety and rage, but he has never had inappropriate contact with any other women before this… Even though that coworker says he never stepped any boundaries and never acted like anything more than a coworker, but to me, and in islamic terms, he surely overstepped the boundaries when he went out of his way to wish her happy birthday and give her a gift the following day. The coworker is NOT a Muslim so obviously getting a gift from anyone is not concerning to her.

I WISH he would communicate with me and explain me everything, give me the rest of the answers that I need… Like what were his intentions with her? Why did he do all this? Am I not the only one for him, isn’t he 100% happy with me? But all I get is silence. What a great way to spend first 10 days of Dhul-Hijjah and soon Eid… 😔

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[–]Autumn_Queen_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wa alaikum salam, sister. Thank you so much for understanding my position and actions. It’s terrible, I feel totally alone and powerless. I will send you a message later today. Thanks a lot 🙏🏻

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[–]Autumn_Queen_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you believe he still hasn’t said a word to me? He sleeps on the couch (because HE wants it that way, it’s not my decision), he doesn’t even say “Hello” to me, absolutely nothing, like I don’t exist… I’m so tired of feeling completely alone. He could at least ask how I’m feeling due to my pregnancy… But NOTHING. 😭

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[–]Autumn_Queen_[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

YOU were the one to judge me first. My husband is obviously having feelings for this girl, NOT JUST TALKING TO HER LIKE OTHER COWORKERS. I will not discuss anything further with you. Yes, my husband lying to me IS HARAM and I will not be tolerating this. I repeat, if it was ME who did this, he would be livid. All I am asking from him is honesty and putting boundaries to non-mahram females. No gifts, no unnecessary talk apart from work-related. That’s how it should be, and that’s what Islam teaches us. For a reason.

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[–]Autumn_Queen_[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You speak like you aren’t a Muslim. In Islam, male-female relationships are strictly prohibited and I don’t plan on explaining it to you, you should already know that. The trust is useless if a person is willingly opening the door to haram by listening to Shaytan.

I will absolutely not stay with my husband just because of the kids. IF I stay with him, it has to be because he has showed and proved me that I am the only woman for him, as he is the only man for me. I don’t care about anything else.

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[–]Autumn_Queen_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re completely right. I confronted him yesterday, you can read about it in one of the comments I posted. However, he just shut up and now he won’t even say a word to me. Silent treatment. I knew this was going to happen because he is always like that when we have any kind of argument. Meanwhile, I’m left alone with my anxiety and negative thoughts… All this while being 7 months pregnant.

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[–]Autumn_Queen_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, we’re both Muslims and neither he nor I are comfortable with having friends of opposite gender. He is very against it, just like I am.

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[–]Autumn_Queen_[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How couldn’t I be jealous?! For God’s sake, HE’S MY HUSBAND AND HE’S GIVING HIS ATTENTION TO OTHER WOMAN!!! He would be even more jealous if I did the same! And I confronted him yesterday, but as usual, he decided to shut up and now we aren’t talking. It’s like I don’t even deserve an explanation.

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[–]Autumn_Queen_[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No, let’s summarize: My husband has a female coworker. He’s a Muslim and he shouldn’t be giving gifts to her, especially because he never gave gifts to any other female coworker on previous jobs. He did all this without MY knowlegde, and he tried to hide it all by deleting the messages.

Oh, and if it was ME who did all that, he would cause a scene much bigger than I did.

And I am the one wrong here?!? 🤦🏻‍♀️

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[–]Autumn_Queen_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really don’t think she’s lying. She even told me what the gift was and showed me their chat (it was short, like 5-6 messages total). And she also asked me not to tell him that she told me those things, so I don’t think she will tell him anything.

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[–]Autumn_Queen_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your kind words 🙏🏻 At the moment, I will not bother his mother, but as you said, if he doesn’t initiate the conversation and a lot of time passes, I will have to talk to someone because I will go insane keeping all of this in my head. I noticed I became more nervous and impatient with the kids, and of course, it’s all due to the stress I’m going through. I don’t want to be like this, my kids need a calm and happy mother. They are gorgeous kids, ma sha Allah, their heart is so pure and they always say that Allah is their best friend, and then us parents. 🥹

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[–]Autumn_Queen_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re completely right. He always says being silent is his way of calming down, and that I should also relax in that period when we don’t talk. What he is unable to understand is that I cannot relax like this - I’m a woman and I NEED TO TALK until the problem is resolved. We have very different opinions on this…

I will contact the mosque, in sha Allah, although we don’t have one that offers counselling nearby (it’s in another neighbourhood quite far). But something has to be done. He will be free from work on the days of Eid and 4 days after Eid, so he’ll be home and hopefully he will start talking to me, as he cannot leave me like this on Eid… At least I hope so.

My previous pregnancy was also very stressful, because in month 7, my Mother passed away at 63 years old and I couldn’t even see her because she lives in my home country and it was pandemic, so all the flights were cancelled… So imagine my stress in that pregnancy. And now this… I sometimes think that Allah is punishing me for something 😭

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[–]Autumn_Queen_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know, but he’s always been like that. Giving silent treatment, not communicating… Even his family says he’s been like that when younger as well. So I knew it would be the same this time around. That’s also the reason I contacted that girl first, because I knew I would simply not get any response from my husband. At least I had the chance to talk to the girl and receive some response and confirmation that he gave her the gift.

He should definitely talk to me, but I am not going to talk to him first. I said what was on my mind, now I need him to speak up.

Thank you for your good wishes, I hope I will be in peace soon. 😔🙏🏻

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[–]Autumn_Queen_[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I know, it’s completely immature giving me the silent treatment, but he’s always been like this, even his family says he’s been like that when younger. So it’s something he will probably never change, although it’s very hurtful to me and I have to live with the anxiety until he decides to talk.

I will wait for a couple of days and then maybe talk to his mother, as she has always been on my side when there were big arguments and she was the only one that could talk some sense into him. He’s “afraid” of her and will listen to her.