Today I want to talk about something I think that's a little unfair. I mean for the people who are trying to get married today, the marriage expectations, you know, the way that marriage is posed to them, you know, between all the AI and all of, you know, the fancy editing, marriage more looks like a highlight reel from a romantic movie than anything ground in a reality

that makes love thrive.

And with that couple with the fact that almost 50% of Muslim marriages are failing, I'm like,

hmm, like there is too much fantasy and false expectations.

So trying to bring everybody back to earth with this one and talk about what

actually works according to the Quran and Sunday so we can remember how to have an amazing

relationship, right, with a guy. And this is something that will obviously make us feel less

worried. And so this is going to be the podcast you don't want to miss. Let's go.

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Salamu al-a-a-a-a-a-hut-a-law.

Welcome back to the podcast. If you are new here, we are so, so happy to have you.

This is a place you're going to hang out. This is going to be like your second family.

Al-h-h-Dh-Lam-Dal, and you're going to get answers on stuff that's just really challenging in your life and you can't talk to anybody else about. And if you know the deal and you know how we work around here, I'm so so glad you're back. And today I'm talking about something where I feel like somebody needs

talk about this. Can somebody talk about this. I mean, you've emerged, you can't have talked

today. You've imagined marriage as this beautiful storybook ending. I mean, when I was 12,

I remember sitting in my bed as a child and I made this one da'a, and I know now, obviously, it's not the da'a you should make, but I was 12.

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