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Is it permissible for a wife to prioritize friends over her husband?
So we need to understand what you mean by prioritise. Is it prioritising them in terms of time? Is it prioritising them in terms of what they want in comparison to what you want? One of the most common scenarios that I hear about is often brothers will say that their wives will spend time getting ready and getting dressed and making effort when they go out with their friends, but not for themselves in terms of their husbands. Now there may be multiple reasons for this as to why this is the scenario, why this has happened, why things are at this level. But without sitting down and going through all of the details and trying to unpack things, it's difficult to comment. So one of the most important things really is definitely involving a third party who you both trust, meaning that you will both respect and listen to their view, or speaking counselling or therapy in order to unpack the underlying root causes. But often it can be difficult just doing it the two of you, and it needs somebody who you both respect to mediate between you.