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Muslims in the UK

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🇬🇧🕌 A group for Muslims in UK, where we celebrate our faith and cultural diversity.

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I’d rather be honest about my disability to my future wife because lying is haram, and I want her to love me for who I am, not a fake version. I work hard every day, I am independent, and I can provide and protect. If she accepts me, she accepts my strength and my struggle — and that is real love.

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Anonymous

24 days ago

Just a rant and also some knowledge I want to share.

It’s clear no one reads people bios apart from me 🤣

I put on mine that I am seeking someone UK born or brought up in the UK - it is my preference don’t come at me.

Now because no one reads my bio, I get individuals liking my profile who are clearly not born or brought up in the UK - you want to know how I guess this and get it right every single time, before scrolling down to the bottom?

If a guy has a picture posing at a shopping centre, he definitely, 100% has not been brought up in the UK. I kid you not and when I realise that, it only confirms it for me when I scroll to the bottom because their profile says they grew up somewhere other than the UK. Haha!
Now for anyone who doesn’t care where someone grew up then that’s fine, but I have a preference and it is frustrating that no one reads my profile because I waste time going through profiles to then realise the person is not what I am after.

Thanks for reading - getting that off my chest feels good haha.

Peace and blessings.

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How a Malignant Female Narcissist Can Disrupt Families and Alienate a Man From His Relatives

Not every difficult relationship involves narcissism, and “malignant narcissist” is not a clinical diagnosis used casually. In psychology, the pattern refers to a mix of narcissistic traits with manipulation, hostility, and low empathy. The behaviours below describe documented relational patterns, not a label for any specific person.

Gradual Isolation From Family

She may slowly discourage contact with his family, framing relatives as toxic, disrespectful, or intrusive. Over time, visits, calls, and emotional closeness with his family decrease without obvious confrontation at first.

Creating “Us vs Them” Thinking

The relationship becomes framed as loyalty to her versus disloyalty to his family. This polarisation pressures the man to choose sides, weakening extended family bonds.

Emotional Guilt and Pressure

Guilt is used as a tool: “If you loved me, you wouldn’t go there,” or “They don’t respect us.” This shifts decision-making from balance to emotional compliance.

Rewriting Reality of His Family

Interactions with his family may be reframed as attacks, disrespect, or neglect even when neutral or minor. This can lead the man to doubt his own interpretation of events.

Controlling Access to Communication

She may monitor, limit, or influence phone calls, visits, or messages with family members, often under the justification of stress, boundaries, or protection.

Triangulation Between Family Members

Conflicts are sometimes amplified by passing messages indirectly, misrepresenting conversations, or selectively sharing information to create tension between relatives.

Undermining His Confidence in Family

Over time, she may repeatedly criticise his family’s behaviour, values, or intentions, weakening his emotional attachment and trust in them.

Emotional Dependency Creation

As family bonds weaken, the man may become more emotionally dependent on her approval, validation, and interpretation of reality.

Conflict Escalation at Key Moments

Tension often increases around holidays, weddings, pregnancies, or financial decisions, where family unity is normally strongest.

Replacement of Family Identity

His primary emotional identity may gradually shift from being part of a wider family system to being mainly defined through the relationship.

Psychological Pattern

Research on coercive control and relational manipulation shows that isolation from support networks is a common feature in abusive dynamics. It is not exclusive to any gender and can occur in any direction within relationships.

Healthy relationships, in contrast, allow both partners to maintain respectful connections with their families while setting fair and independent boundaries.

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The Trend of Marrying Cousins Abroad and Bringing Them to the UK — Social and Cultural Realities

In some immigrant communities, cousin marriages and transnational marriages continue due to family tradition, cultural familiarity, economic support, and pressure to preserve kinship ties. Research shows these marriages are often connected to family expectations, migration patterns, and maintaining extended family loyalty.

Marrying to Please Parents

Many marriages are influenced heavily by parental expectations and family honour rather than personal compatibility. The marriage may be viewed as fulfilling family duty, preserving tradition, or strengthening family alliances across countries.

Bringing a Spouse to the UK

In some cases, marriage becomes connected to migration opportunities, financial stability, or helping relatives abroad establish themselves in the UK. Studies note that extended family interests can play a major role in these arrangements.

Culture Shock

A spouse arriving from another country may experience major cultural adjustment difficulties, including differences in lifestyle, gender expectations, social norms, communication styles, and independence.

The UK-born spouse may also struggle because both individuals were raised in completely different environments despite sharing ethnicity or religion.

Language Barriers

Limited English proficiency can create emotional distance, dependency, misunderstanding, and isolation within the marriage and wider society. Research on immigrant families in the UK links language barriers to communication problems and emotional strain.

Lack of Compatibility

Shared family background does not automatically create emotional or psychological compatibility. Differences in education, values, expectations, emotional maturity, and worldview may emerge after marriage.

Some couples discover they were connected more by family arrangement than genuine understanding.

Financial and Family Pressure

In certain situations, the UK-based spouse becomes financially responsible not only for their partner but also for extended family obligations abroad. This can create pressure, resentment, and imbalance within the marriage.

Family Interference

Because the marriage is tied closely to extended relatives, boundaries may become weak. Decisions about the marriage may involve parents, cousins, and family elders rather than the couple independently.

Emotional Isolation

Some spouses struggle socially after migration due to homesickness, lack of support networks, loneliness, or inability to integrate into British society. This can increase dependency and marital tension.

Generational Conflict

UK-born individuals are often raised with different expectations regarding marriage, communication, gender roles, and independence compared to spouses raised abroad. This difference can create long-term conflict within the relationship and in parenting styles.

Changing Attitudes

Research and public discussion in the UK show younger generations increasingly prioritise emotional compatibility, communication, education, and shared values over traditional family-arranged cousin marriages.

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Any Tottenham fans here on this app
Good luck in the championship

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Anonymous

24 days ago

And on the 3rd day god created bolt action sniper rifle so mankind can protect themselves against dinosaurs and homosexuals.

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Open to get married everyone please no fighting

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Assalamualaikum, would love to have an European wife (I love the culture sm) 😊

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https://www.tickettailor.com/events/naphevents/2141893

Birmingham only a few hours to go until we kick start our Eid Special.

Tickets nearly sold out.

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Hello guys

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