Naima B. Robert – Advice on Social Media for Muslim Couples TMC E5
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What would you say
has been the impact of social media on
Muslims and Muslim marriages?
I think it's raised
a unrealistic
expectation
of what marriage should be like.
You see, when people see certain images,
they're only seeing one aspect of
that story.
Yeah? Maybe it's a superficial aspect of that
story or that marriage or that relationship.
So they're thinking,
well, my life doesn't look like this. But
what they don't realize is probably taken that
couple couple of takes before they got that
final shots. Yeah.
Yeah. So
I think that is creating
a,
like, a
like a it's like a fantasy. You know?
Like, you know, my marriage, you know, should
be like this, or it's not like this.
You know? And it's kind of making us
look down on what we have in our
relationship,
and that's very unhealthy. Why? Because
we know in our tradition,
you know, we should always look to people
who have lesser than us Mhmm. Not more
than us. Why? Because when we look at
people who have lesser than us, in
in inevitably, it will make us grateful. But
when we always look at people who have
things that we don't have,
what's gonna
do what's that going to do to us?
It's going to make us feel ungrateful.
And then because we're always seeing people having
more than us or better than us supposedly
supposedly.
Yeah?
But when you look closely,
the reality is quite different because, you know,
we often think
the grass is green on the other side.
But the reality is the truth is the
grass is green wherever you water it.
Boom.
Yeah. 100%.