Author: bilal-dannoun

Two of the highest predictors of a healthy and long-lasting marriage are communication and knowledge of your spouse. Communication This is about listening, sharing your thoughts, and avoiding being critical.  Communication is also about understanding your spouse’ needs and expectations through conversation and consequently exploring their physical, emotional and spiritual needs. Healthy couples who communicate what they want, avoid getting what they don’t want. Communication is to a marriage  like oxygen is to life; in both cases, the latter cannot survive without the former. Effective communication involves turning towards your lover whilst listening (not just hearing) with your ears...

One of the biggest secrets to having a loving, satisfying and fulfilling marriage is awareness about how the spouses feel about themselves when they are in the company of each other. A spouse falls in love and stays in love due to the way their partner makes them feel about themselves when they are with them. When a husband feels respected, needed, acknowledged, loved and special around his wife, he will do almost anything for his wife and he will feel a deep sense of love for her. Likewise, when a wife feels needed, attractive, loved, cherished, and special,...

In this day and age of alarming rates of divorce and attitudes of replacing what is damaged instead of fixing it, we find many people unaware of the most powerful contributors for healthy and fit marriages.   What follows are penetrating insights that every spouse must be consistently conscious of, that would lead to the success and longevity of a marriage. Make Allah a Priority In Your Lives Allah is the turner of hearts and He is the one who inspires and guides to what produces the best outcomes. When husband and wife love Allah and His Messenger Muhammad...