Re: Should I go back to my husband?
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Saying that a father is an important figure and staying married to the husband isn’t village-y. MANY women in the US stay married to their husbands for the sake of their children. Or they make a last effort to save their marriage for the kids. Maria Shriver? Elizabeth Edwards? The list can continue… They are not from villages or Pakistan and nor are they Muslims. And what’s more is that these women were cheated on, yet they still tried. I’m in no way implying that if a woman is being abused by her husband or is being cheated on, she should stay married-- of course not.
We’re told that God especially dislikes divorce. There’s got to be a reason and that’s why people should make the effort to work on their marriage, not run away from it. For some, that effort is months, for others it could be years. But one still has to try as long as they long as they have that determination.
In the OPs case, she’s been separated and her husband didn’t fulfill his islamic duty of providing for her and their kids. So after 3 years of waiting for him to change… it does seem like she’s almost entitled to a divorce.