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What choice would you make

A bride, a girl, a muslim girl goes to a new house with hundreds of expectations. Marriage is not only between two people but between two families. Ironically, in Bengali culture this very statement is always misunderstood. For the sake of unifying the family, we overlook the unity of the two people who just started their lives and barely know each other. With all these responsibilities, the girl totally forgets about the purpose of wedding itself. I have known so many families where the daughter-in-laws are discouraged to to spend some private time with their husbands except for the night. The end result is that they never get to have a loving relationship between them. According to our culture, this is supposed to be the epitome of an ideal muslim bride. Hold on, is it really what islam says? Has Allah (swt) made the wedding for the purpose of satisfying the in laws only. Ibrahim (As) had told his son Ismail (AS) to change his wife not because she was'nt a good daughter-in-law bu...