Considering marriage

Considering marriage July 22, 2012

NYU’s chaplain Imam Khalid Latif continues his Ramadan reflections this year at The Huffington Post. Check out hi piece from Day 3, “Considering Marriage”:

“As a man, are you entitled to want to marry someone who will stay at home, cook, look after the kids and not work? Sure – but then don’t start a relationship with someone who doesn’t share a similar vision for her future. You will end up causing a lot more problems than you realize, mostly for the woman who is trying navigate herself through this situation and will then begin to doubt the time and energy she put into getting to where she is in life. No woman who has decided to follow her ambitions and pursue a career should be made to think that she was wrong for doing so and that her being single is a deeper sign of that wrongness.”

Read the rest of his post, here.


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