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Influence from society, TV, social media

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Women are more independent

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Lots of blended families due to increase in divorce

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Lots of blended families due to increase in divorce

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Gender roles
Level of comitment

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Marrying outside of your culture

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Traditional vs. egalitarian

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Technology

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Desire to live away from in-laws

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Getting married older, having kids later. Not wanting to live with in laws

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Cultural clash. West vs back home thinking 

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Cultural clash. West vs back home thinking 

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Lack of trust in spouses

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Being influenced by Western culture

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Emotional incompatibility

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Both spouses working

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Lack of respect
Lack of deen teachings
Lack of behavior
Lack of smile

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Adapting  more western values into their core beliefs

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Less focus on family, both immediate and extended

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Less focus on family, both immediate and extended

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Lack of Islamic values and principles

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Less willingness to be physically present for older parents who need physical or financial help

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each generation looks down on one another 

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each generation looks down on one another 

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Parental roles

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Too many activities going on - no core fam time.

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High rate of divorce amongst family members 

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High rate of divorce amongst family members 

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Divorce
Power dynamic
Gender expectations
Unhealed trauma

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Children are their parents retirement fund

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Infidelity
Lack of communication
Social media

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2 spouses “independent”
Expectations that both will take care of children
Less religious

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Social media influences
The grass greener on the other side

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Social media activity defining if you’re a good spouse or not

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Parents trying to hold onto their kids and using Islam to make them feel guilty.

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Parents trying to hold onto their kids and using Islam to make them feel guilty.

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hyper individualism as a nuclear family conflicting with inlaws coming from the old joint family mentality

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Women find it difficult to adjust to unjust standards by in laws, which creates friction .. there can be unity of both parties adjust a little to have harmony

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The mother also had a career and is out of the house.

Fathers are more present in the day to day lives of their children.

Spouses take time away (separately & together).

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The roles
Childhood trauma

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Sisters do not  want to consider living with or close to in-laws even before getting to know each other.

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Delaying children

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Culture/Society we live in

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More focus on worldly education and less on spiritual education

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More focus on worldly education and less on spiritual education

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Mixing of different cultures

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1. American/western/culture values are more important than deen
2. No sacredness of wife/husband relationship due to social media and openness in general society

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The dynamic of being 2nd gen immigrants compared to 1st gen

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No such thing as this is a woman job vs a man job

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Disassociate from religion being taught in schools

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Disassociate from religion being taught in schools

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Social media

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Dynamics of responsibilities have shifted
Less emphasis on true communication and more on how the relationship looks

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No religious unity

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Post divorce marriages
Conflicting dynamics (traditional, transitional etc)

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Technology effecting communication and conflict resolution

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More individualistic (put themselves before family/spouse)

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More individualistic (put themselves before family/spouse)

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High expectations driven by social media.  Resulting in comparing and unhappiness. 

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High expectations driven by social media.  Resulting in comparing and unhappiness. 

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Becoming less family oriented

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A clash of expectations

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Lack of understanding/balancing of living in western world

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More time glued to technology

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- More educated and financially independent women in the family
- women are more aware of their rights so they don’t want to submit to the traditional norms

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Not paying attention to children

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Lack of importance of deen for the children

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Less children

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Not being willing to apologize and admit when you’ve made a mistake

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High expectations and low reward

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Lack of Muslim values and principles

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Women expected to give up their family and spend more time with in laws only

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In laws interfering

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Spouses spending less time with each other

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Spouses spending less time with each other

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Willing to finance/ go in debt for image of perfect family

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Spouse being addicted to indecent viewing material

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Women taking all the initiative

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Men not being chivalrous

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Being a man as a woman is so hard and sucks 

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Being a man as a woman is so hard and sucks 

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You said if one is happy, they can make others happy. But how can they be happy if they're surrounded by unloving people.