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When You Marry for Four Reasons, Don’t Forget Your Reason

As a practicing psychologist, I was once consulted by a brother in Turkey in need of immediate relationship advice. In summary, the brother’s “emergency” was that he had met a nice religious girl from a good family but was not attracted to her at all. He was under pressure from both his and her family to make a decision after three short meetings with the sister. I asked him what he liked about her; he said she was religious and came from a good family. “Okay, what else?”compatibilit

I could feel his anxiety through the computer screen. To marry or not to marry?

“Should I just go for it?”

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