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Family & feelings

First meetings, awkward questions, and how to talk to your parents about any of it.

Getting Married Later: Why Bangladeshis Are Marrying in Their 30s

Dhaka has the lowest marriage rate of any division in Bangladesh. Housing costs, careers, wedding inflation and simple exhaustion explain most of it — and marrying later is not the failure your relatives think it is.

Family & feelings8 min read

Marrying Across Districts: Sylheti, Chittagonian, Dhakaiya and Beyond

The language is genuinely harder than families expect, the food is different, and the wedding customs do not match. None of it is a reason to say no — but all of it is worth discussing before the akd.

Family & feelings8 min read

Engaged and Living Apart: Making a Long-Distance Match Work

Dhaka to Dubai, Sylhet to London, Chattogram to Kuala Lumpur. Call routines across time zones, family video calls, paperwork timelines and the quiet drift that ends long-distance engagements.

Family & feelings7 min read

Arranged or Love Marriage? An Honest Look for Bangladeshi Families

One promises family backing without knowing the person. The other promises knowing the person without family backing. Most young Bangladeshis want both, and that is now a practical option rather than a compromise.

Family & feelings7 min read

What to Ask When Your Family Goes to See a Prospective Groom

The bride's side is allowed to ask as much as the groom's side does. Income and debt, where you will live, what he expects of her work and study, and how to ask all of it without giving offence.

Family & feelings7 min read

12 Red Flags to Take Seriously Before You Say Yes

Not every worry is a warning. But vagueness about income, dowry hints, pressure to decide this week and hostility to her studies are patterns worth stopping for — and here is how to test each one.

Family & feelings9 min read

Christian and Buddhist Marriage in Bangladesh: Ceremony and Registration

How a Christian wedding is solemnised and registered in Bangladesh, why Buddhist couples have no dedicated registration law, and where the Special Marriage Act 1872 fits in.

Family & feelings8 min read

Living With In-Laws: Setting Expectations Before the Wedding, Not After

Joint or separate household, money, chores, privacy, visiting her parents — the five conversations that decide the first year of a Bangladeshi marriage, and why they belong before the nikah.

Family & feelings8 min read

How to Talk to Your Parents About Someone You've Chosen Yourself

Timing, who to tell first, how to use an elder as intermediary, the sentences that work in a Bangladeshi household, and what to do if the first answer is no.

Family & feelings8 min read

Will She Keep Working After Marriage? Have the Conversation First

Career, higher study, transfers, childcare and household expectations — how Bangladeshi families should talk about a wife working, without either side pretending to agree.

Family & feelings8 min read

Remarrying When You Have Children: What to Think Through First

Custody, guardianship, maintenance, and the day you introduce someone new. A practical guide to remarriage with children in Bangladesh, for parents who want to get this right the first time.

Family & feelings8 min read

The Money Conversation Every Couple Should Have Before Nikah

Salaries, loans, family remittances, her right to her own earnings and mahr, and how you will actually run a household — the financial conversation Bangladeshi couples keep postponing until it is too late.

Family & feelings1 min read

Arranged Marriage: How the First Meeting Should Go

First arranged meeting coming up? Here is what to expect and how to make it go well.

Family & feelings1 min read

Questions to Ask a Potential Partner Before Marriage

Getting to know a match? These questions reveal what really matters before marriage.

Family & feelings1 min read

How to Tell Your Parents You Are Ready for Marriage

Ready to marry but not sure how to bring it up? Here is a calm way to tell your parents.

Family & feelings8 min read

Remarriage After Divorce in Bangladesh: A Practical, Kind Guide

Divorce in Bangladesh doubled between 2021 and 2022, and in Dhaka women file most of the applications. What to settle legally, when iddah ends, what to disclose, and how to search again without apologising for your life.

Family & feelings7 min read

What to Actually Ask When You Go to See a Prospective Bride

Most families go to see a bride and come home knowing her height, her cooking and nothing else. Thirty questions that actually tell you whether a marriage will work — and six you should never ask.

Family & feelings9 min read

Medical Tests to Do Before Marriage in Bangladesh (and What They Cost)

Thalassemia carrier screening above everything else, plus blood group, hepatitis and a basic health panel. What each test is for, roughly what it costs in Dhaka and Chattogram, and how to raise it without offending anyone.

Family & feelings9 min read

Widow and Widower Remarriage: Removing the Stigma

Islam encourages remarriage after widowhood, and Bangladeshi law puts nothing in the way. What holds families back is custom. Iddah, inheritance, children, in-laws, and how to begin again.

Family & feelings8 min read

Surviving and Enjoying the First Year of Marriage

What the first twelve months of a Bangladeshi marriage actually feel like, how to argue without doing damage, where in-laws fit, and why counselling is not an admission of failure.

Getting Married Later: Why Bangladeshis Are Marrying in Their 30s

Marrying Across Districts: Sylheti, Chittagonian, Dhakaiya and Beyond

Engaged and Living Apart: Making a Long-Distance Match Work

Arranged or Love Marriage? An Honest Look for Bangladeshi Families

What to Ask When Your Family Goes to See a Prospective Groom

12 Red Flags to Take Seriously Before You Say Yes

Christian and Buddhist Marriage in Bangladesh: Ceremony and Registration

Living With In-Laws: Setting Expectations Before the Wedding, Not After

How to Talk to Your Parents About Someone You've Chosen Yourself

Will She Keep Working After Marriage? Have the Conversation First

Remarrying When You Have Children: What to Think Through First

The Money Conversation Every Couple Should Have Before Nikah

Arranged Marriage: How the First Meeting Should Go

Questions to Ask a Potential Partner Before Marriage

How to Tell Your Parents You Are Ready for Marriage

Remarriage After Divorce in Bangladesh: A Practical, Kind Guide

What to Actually Ask When You Go to See a Prospective Bride

Medical Tests to Do Before Marriage in Bangladesh (and What They Cost)

Widow and Widower Remarriage: Removing the Stigma

Surviving and Enjoying the First Year of Marriage

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Getting Married Later: Why Bangladeshis Are Marrying in Their 30s

Marrying Across Districts: Sylheti, Chittagonian, Dhakaiya and Beyond

Engaged and Living Apart: Making a Long-Distance Match Work

Arranged or Love Marriage? An Honest Look for Bangladeshi Families

What to Ask When Your Family Goes to See a Prospective Groom

12 Red Flags to Take Seriously Before You Say Yes

Christian and Buddhist Marriage in Bangladesh: Ceremony and Registration

Living With In-Laws: Setting Expectations Before the Wedding, Not After

How to Talk to Your Parents About Someone You've Chosen Yourself

Will She Keep Working After Marriage? Have the Conversation First

Remarrying When You Have Children: What to Think Through First

The Money Conversation Every Couple Should Have Before Nikah

Arranged Marriage: How the First Meeting Should Go

Questions to Ask a Potential Partner Before Marriage

How to Tell Your Parents You Are Ready for Marriage

Remarriage After Divorce in Bangladesh: A Practical, Kind Guide

What to Actually Ask When You Go to See a Prospective Bride

Medical Tests to Do Before Marriage in Bangladesh (and What They Cost)

Widow and Widower Remarriage: Removing the Stigma

Surviving and Enjoying the First Year of Marriage

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