by Musarat Yusufali LCSW | Sep 28, 2019 | DBT, Relationships, Trauma
Mariam came to me in desperation. She was utterly broken, alone and miserable. She had been married to her husband for seven years and it felt like their marriage was over. They were constantly fighting over the smallest things, they had lost their intimacy and...
by Musarat Yusufali LCSW | Sep 21, 2019 | DBT, Parenting, Relationships
Practicing Radical Acceptance With In-Laws From Another Culture My husband is Iraqi and his family only speaks Arabic. I am a mish-mash of cultures and I definitely don’t speak Arabic. Every time I visit his side of the our family, I get asked the question ‘why...
by Musarat Yusufali LCSW | Sep 14, 2019 | DBT, Relationships
When I was getting married, my to-be-husband wasn’t supposed to see me for a week before our marriage. When I shared this with him, he looked at me with a puzzled look and said that’s not going to happen. The world is getting smaller and marriages within different...
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