Getting your periods

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Re: Getting your periods

@momof2angels

yeah My MIL is a little backwards in tradition she believes that what she says is the ultimate truth. We go to Pakistan yearly for Eid and spend a month or 2 there and during that month if i am on my period she kept saying to me tonight you sleep downstairs don’t go to your husband its sinful for a woman to sleep in the same bed as a man at that time. Or if I am on my period and its time for namaz and everyone is sat in the same room she will loudly say “Aisha go upstairs and pray.” Not just periods but when I was having my first daughter before i was due she called daily and would say “Don’t scream during the labour.” “Don’t cry.” “Don’t tell your husband if you start contractions keep them to yourself.” Lol i was like hello he is the one who is going to take me to the hospital so how can he not know.

She is very touch about the subject of periods I cannot use the same bathroom as my husband at that time cos its dirty and she even goes as far as to say that during that time I am not allowed to make roti/salaan. I tell her many times my hubby is not a child he is a grown man he knows when the time is and what pads i use etc to which she was shocked and said that I was besharam and she then got my SIL to talk to me about why periods must stay secret

There are hadith that clearly contradict this attitude. It is not your hand that is menstruating, after all. YOU are not dirty.

What silliness.