My Husband is Patient:
- When he does get upset, he closes his eyes, takes a deep breath, and seeks refuge in Allah from Satan before opening his eyes and smiling at me to show that all is forgiven.
Tom across the street screams at his wife
Dora until she cries.
My Husband is Romantic:
- When he’s late coming home from work, I know he’s not cheating on me with the secretary... he’s stopping by the KFC to pick up the chicken dumplings he knows I love, with a bouquet of roses to apologize for not answering my phone call.
Angela’s getting a divorce
because Richard was caught with his partner at the office –
twice.
My Husband is Honorable:
- When he’s out with his friends for the weekend, I know he’s not out at the pub flirting with the waitress... He’s at the mosque mentoring teenage boys and plays basketball with the guys.
Lana hates that her
boyfriend spends his weekend nights at the local seedy strip club,
enjoying women who aren’t her.
My Husband is Supportive:
- When I got my new job, he helped me balance my schedule and helped pick up with the chores around the house. When I got my promotion, he took me out to dinner and we celebrated all night. When my pay cheque exceeded his, he never asked me for a penny and would insist on paying for the milk I picked up on my way home.
Julia confided that her husband resents
her success, and demands that she pay half the rent.
My Husband is Chivalrous:
- Even when we had the worst argument in the history of our marriage, when he slept at his mom’s house for a week, he never laid an angry hand on me.
Brad across the street hits his wife whenever they have a fight,
and we can all see the bruises under the sleeves of her shirt.
My Husband is an involved Father:
- He takes my girl to karate every Wednesday and then buys her ice cream on the way back. He gives her a piggy back ride and changes her baby brother’s diapers when I’m busy.
Jack down the road yells at his
kids to stay out of his way, while he spends his days on the couch with
the TV and a bottle of whiskey.
My Husband is Chaste:
- I’m the only woman he looks at with that look of adoration and thorough appreciation. I love it when he looks me with his eyes, because his eyes don’t look to any other feminine figure except mine.
Cindy found
her husband’s inbox full of pornography subscriptions.
My Husband is Honest:
- When he makes a mistake, he admits and tries to do better. When he is proven wrong, he humbly accepts it and seeks to rectify his error.
George blames Brenda for anything that goes wrong, and refuses to take
responsibility.
My Husband is Respectful:
- He treats me as a complete equal, an individual in my own right. He listens to what I have to say and never belittles my opinions. He empathizes with my feelings even if he doesn’t agree. He places me on a pedestal and never demeans my efforts at home with the kids or at work with my colleagues.
Tom criticizes Susan about her education at a
small-town college, about her part-time job, and about her size-14
figure.
My Husband is Playful:
- He’ll tickle me until I cry with laughter. He’ll play Twister with me until we fall on the floor in a heap of tangled limbs. He’ll dress up as a clown for the kids on the Eid party, even though his boss is there.
Michael the C.E.O. is rarely seen cracking a smile, even at his son’s
baseball game.
My Husband is Generous and Soft-Hearted:
- He can never walk by a panhandler without dropping at least a dollar into the beggar’s hand. When the teenage prostitute sashays up to him, her eyes blank and staring, he gives her the business card for the women’s shelter and gives her ten dollars to buy herself a decent meal.
The guy behind him pulls her over for a grope and an appointment at the
motel down the street.
My Husband is Spiritual and Religious:
- His British-Doctorate accent doesn’t hide the wisdom of his words, or the humor of his jokes. The mark on his forehead is from when he goes out to pray in the woods, to commune with nature and communicate with God – Not a sign of his Terrorist Tendencies.
His heart Encompasses the Love of Allah,
the Love of the Prophet, the Love of his Parents, His Wife, His Children, His community and Humanity.
