Asking for Dua and Support - I’m Struggling
As-salamu alaykum, I’m sharing this as a vent and a quiet cry for help, so please don’t judge or shame me or my fiancé. I’m really struggling and just need someone to listen. I know it’s long, but please read everything. My fiancé and I were speaking with the intention of marriage and our families were involved, trying to get mine to accept him. In the middle of that, he was framed for a crime he didn’t do. I told my parents we were done because it became unbearable living under the same roof while they were stressed about this and kept trying to turn me against him. He ended up on house arrest. Then he broke the bail conditions - I don’t know why - and I feel stuck because I can’t ask him. His court date was supposed to be last week but got postponed for eight more weeks. Eight weeks of silence, stuck between hope and panic. I miss him so much it physically hurts. I want to marry him. I want our life back. I feel helpless because I can’t speak to him, comfort him, or check he’s okay. It feels like half my life was ripped away. I know this sounds dramatic but I can’t find the right words to express how I truly feel. The people I expected to lean on aren’t there. My “best friend” leaves me on read like what I say means nothing, while I always reply to her, check on her and listen when she needs me. When I asked her why she ignores me she said her life has been “hard,” but she still has time to talk about her baby, rant, go out and live her life. She’s just not there for me. I’m done with that, but now I have nobody. It’s so hard to make friends at my age and as a woman. My fiancé’s sister is my friend too, but she’s drowning in her own problems. Last night she called me completely breaking down - her sobbing was intense and I didn’t know how to help. In the middle of it she told me she feels like my fiancé is going to die. Do you know how that felt? Hearing that about the person you love when you’re already terrified - it broke me. She then told me about a dream: her mum came to her and said she is the only person who can make my fiancé happy and that he’d be lost without her. She said a sheikha told her the dream was from Allah. I can’t tell you how much that hurt. I don’t take things personally usually, but that felt so cruel - especially since I know how he feels about her and how he feels about me. I’m the one he opened up to in this situation; he doesn’t even tell others when he’s sad. Everyone else says he’s fine, but I’m the one he trusted. Hearing someone claim he’d be “lost without her” made me feel like I didn’t exist. Even while I was shaking and close to breaking, I held it together and comforted her because that’s how I am and I didn’t want to make it about myself. Meanwhile, the man I’m supposed to marry is locked up, depressed, probably asking why life has treated him this way, and I can’t help him. I can’t even speak to him. I can’t tell my family or it could ruin things for us even though he’s innocent. So I carry this whole burden every day. His sister says no one is there for her and no one cares, but I am there for her - she called me at 3am. Yet she leaves me on read when I say I miss him or when I’m upset. I give her hours; she gives two words when she feels like it. It makes me feel invisible. The only time we talk for hours is about her; when it’s about me the conversation slows. I don’t work right now; it’s the holidays. I have nothing to distract me, so I sit in silence, drown in my thoughts, miss him, and carry a heavy heart. I feel alone, abandoned and drained. I’m just holding myself together waiting for him to come out. I’m venting because I have nowhere else to put this pain. I need dua and kind words - something to stop me spiralling, something to make me feel less alone. Please don’t make this only about religion; I also need practical advice from people who understand modern life. Jazakum Allahu khairan for listening.