u/Due_Medicine4731

For the first time in a long, long while I’ve slipped to a point where I’m struggling to get back up out of this slump.

Normally I’m always quite chipper with everything and my mental health is in a good spot where I can just by force drag myself to a streak but right now this sin has become a routine and I have a lack of ambition and drive to get through it.

Just struggling right now to break the routine tbh

Honestly didn’t expect this to hit as hard as it does. I’m a Muslim male born and raised in England whose of marriageable age with a successful career yet finding a wife seems so difficult.

Trying to find a halal connection while staying away from haram content feels like walking a tightrope.

Every time I open a dating app it’s a minefield — profiles, pictures, conversations that can easily lead your mind somewhere it shouldn’t go. And then the anxiety kicks in. Am I doing this right? Is this even permissible? Why does this feel so exhausting?

It starts feeling like a chore rather than something hopeful. Swipe, match, small talk, nothing. Repeat. Meanwhile you’re fighting your own nafs the whole time.

Anyone else feel like the whole process works against everything we’re trying to build here? Like the apps themselves are designed to trigger exactly what we’re trying to avoid and just seeing it as one big honey trap/time waste?

Would love to hear how brothers are navigating this — whether you’ve found better alternatives, made dua and stepped back, or just found a way to reframe it mentally to trudge through it.

Stay strong everyone. 🤲