Some days: Why do women keep returning to their abusers, it's their fault that they end up beat or killed, they should just leave. Silly emotions.

Other days: Women have less rights to divorce because otherwise they'd abuse it & make reckless decisions to leave. Silly emotions.
The emotion justification for reduced divorce rights is not grounded in reality.
Those who deal with divorce in Muslim communities are well aware of the fact that most regret & pain is caused by men declaring divorce in moments of anger, loss of temper, or loss of commitment.
Womens emotional intelligence causes them to hold onto (even abusive) relationships, not leave them.
Mens reduced emotional intelligence makes it easier to leave relationships which are rationally not beneficial to them anymore (loss of attraction/new relationship/wife sick etc)
This is why there are statistics which show that when women are given serious diagnoses such as cancer, their husbands are more likely to leave them. If men are given similar diagnoses, the woman is LESS likely to leave them.
Saying something again and again (that women shouldn't be allowed to divorce because they are emotional and would divorce too often) doesn't make it true.
Women do have more restrictions in terms of pursuing divorce than men.
That these restrictions are to protect the breakdown of families due to women's uncontrollable emotions, does not make sense, and does not reflect reality.
Drop this line of explanation.
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