We guide couples through an 8-week live coaching journey to rediscover love, deepen emotional intimacy, and align their marriage with prophetic values. Whether you’re newly married, preparing for marriage, or rebuilding connection after years together, this program blends Islamic wisdom with proven tools from the Gottman Method to transform your relationship from simply surviving to thriving
Your 8-week Journey
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Beliefs & Expectations
We start with an open conversation + tools like PREPARE/ENRICH and our own pre-marital assessments to surface expectations about love, conflict, gender roles, intimacy, family, and “what marriage should feel like.” You’ll identify strengths, growth areas, and potential mismatches early—before they become pain points later.
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Cultural & Family Scripts
Based on the assessment, we work together to establish goals that will guide your pre-marital journey. These goals may focus on key areas such as communication, conflict resolution, managing finances, intimacy, and setting shared life visions. Setting clear goals helps create a strong foundation for your future marriage, ensuring you both feel prepared and aligned.
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Understanding Marriage in Islam.
We help couples understand what a healthy relationship in Islam looks like in balancing cultural values and religious values. Couples are informed about dowry (mahr), the process of a marriage (nikkah), divorce proceedings (ṭalāq), and other important mechanisms to maintain a healthy relationship.
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Progression & Plan.
We provide couples with tools for a healthy, lasting marriage using techniques from emotionally focused therapy and the Gottman Method to enhance communication, conflict resolution, and emotional resilience. Follow-up sessions reinforce these skills, address concerns, and ensure long-term growth and connection in the relationship.
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The Positive Perspective.
When conflict escalates, it can flood the nervous system and hijack communication. This week introduces strategies for calming down, taking effective timeouts, and practicing fair compromise. You’ll explore the Prophetic model of wuḍū’ and emotional regulation in stories like ʿAlī and Fāṭimah’s relationship. Couples begin to feel more empowered to handle disagreements in a way that strengthens—rather than threatens—their bond.
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Manage Conflict.
Intimacy and emotional connection go hand in hand. In this week, we focus on rebuilding closeness through love languages, rituals of connection, and daily acts of affection. Using examples from the Prophet ﷺ’s romantic sunnah, we reawaken the joy of being in love. Couples plan intentional time for each other through date nights, surprise gestures, and affectionate routines. This week often reignites the emotional and physical spark.
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Make Life Dreams Come True.
Beneath every recurring conflict is a deeper life dream. Week 7 is a chance to explore each other’s values, ambitions, and fears through a guided Dreams Within Conflict dialogue. Islamic reflections on mutual consultation (shūrā) from Qur’an 42:38 and hadiths on support in marriage help you approach your partner’s dreams with empathy and curiosity. This week brings profound emotional intimacy and a renewed sense of shared purpose.
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Create Shared Meaning.
A fulfilling marriage is more than love—it’s about legacy. In our final week, you’ll craft a shared vision for your marriage by defining rituals, values, and a mission statement. Qur’an 25:74 inspires us to aim for tranquility, leadership in taqwā, and family unity. Couples leave this week with new habits, a visual mission displayed at home, and a fresh commitment to a sacred bond rooted in love, purpose, and gratitude.
Your Journey
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Beliefs & Expectations
We start with an open conversation to evaluate your relationship dynamics, values, and areas of strength and growth. Using tools like the PREPARE/ENRICH assessment and our own Pre-Marital Assessments, we gain insights into compatibility and potential challenges before marriage.
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Cultural & Family Scripts
Every couple brings inherited patterns from family, community, and culture. This topic helps you name what you’re carrying (healthy and unhealthy), clarify what you want to keep, and build a shared “culture” for your home—without confusing culture for Islam.
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Akhirah
Marriage isn’t just compatibility—it’s worship and legacy. You’ll define your joint intention (niyyah), build a shared spiritual rhythm (ʿibādah, duʿā, shūrā), and connect your relationship goals to a bigger purpose: becoming a team that helps each other get closer to Allah.
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Communication & Repair
This is your skill-building core using Gottman + emotionally focused therapy tools: gentle start-ups, active listening, bids for connection, repair attempts, and apology/forgiveness patterns. You’ll also learn how to de-escalate when flooded (including Prophetic emotional regulation practices like wuḍū’ and effective timeouts).
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Differentiation
A strong marriage needs closeness and emotional maturity. This topic teaches self-regulation, maintaining identity without becoming rigid, handling disagreement without panic, and creating boundaries (especially with in-laws and community pressure). Differentiation is how love stays stable under stress.
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Self-Concept
How you see yourself shapes how you love. We strengthen self-clarity, heal insecurities, and build healthier attachment patterns so intimacy can feel safe and joyful. We end by crafting your shared meaning: rituals of connection, love languages, a couple mission statement, and a “home vision” rooted in tranquility, mercy, and love—Barakah (Q 30:21).
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Nikah & Divorce Literacy
We make the Islamic framework clear and practical: mahr, the nikāḥ process, rights/obligations, conflict ethics, and what Islam actually says about separation pathways (ṭalāq/khulʿ) so couples can protect their marriage with knowledge—not fear, confusion, or myths.
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Financial Partnership
Money is rarely just money—it’s security, control, trust, and anxiety. We create a financial plan: budgeting, debt, spending styles, transparency, roles around provision, giving/sadaqah, and how to handle financial stress as a united team.
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Roles & Responsibilities
Couples often fight about “the issue,” when the real issue is unclear roles. You’ll map expectations around household leadership/service, chores, emotional labor, boundaries with extended family, and future planning (kids, living arrangements, work-life). Clear agreements reduce resentment.