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What should be discussed when one family expects the couple to live with parents?

Living with parents can work when both spouses understand the arrangement and their rights, responsibilities and boundaries.

What Islam teaches

Islam encourages kindness to parents while also recognising the rights of spouses within marriage.

What you can consider

Discuss privacy, household responsibilities, financial arrangements, decision-making and how conflicts with extended family will be handled.

Qur'an 17:23; Qur'an 4:19; Qur'an 30:21.

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