{"id":55461,"date":"2018-05-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/55461\/8-typical-things-lebanese-married-couples-do"},"modified":"2018-05-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T00:00:00","slug":"8-typical-things-lebanese-married-couples-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/55461\/8-typical-things-lebanese-married-couples-do\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Typical Things Lebanese Married Couples Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Lebanese culture has the most peculiar pattern of social relationships, and perhaps the most peculiar, and funny, is the relationship between a Lebanese married couple. Here\u2019s a list of 8 \u201cunique\u201d things these couples do: <\/p>\n<p>  <b>1. Watch the same thing on TV\u2026 but each in a separate room. And they yell out to each other from one room to another.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  Meanwhile the Kids:<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/eenSmyv5VGhzUNTiWy\/giphy.gif\"width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b>2. Refer to the kids as \u201cebnak\/bentak\u201d and \u201cebnik\/bentik\u201d when things go wrong.<br \/>  \u201cRoo7 shoof ebnak shou 3amel\u201d, \u201c2ooleh la bentik \u2026\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <b>3. Constantly bad mouth each other\u2019s families<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/l0MYNnQhGGs4CxtYI\/giphy.gif\"width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>  Dad: \u201c<i>Hal walad tale3 la 5ayyik<\/i>\u201d <br \/>  Mom: \u201c<i>Mesh a7san ma yetla3 la emmak?<\/i>\u201d <\/p>\n<p>  <b>4. Can never take a decision and ask the kids to ask the other person<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/jVfJQIq7WC6MU\/giphy.gif\"width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>  Son: \u201c<i>Baba feene edhar?<\/i>\u201d <br \/>  Dad: \u201c<i>S2al emmak<\/i>\u201d<br \/>  Son: \u201c<i>Mama feene edhar?<\/i>\u201d<br \/>  Mom: \u201c<i>S2al bayyak<\/i>\u201d<br \/>  And repeat.<\/p>\n<p>  <b>5. \u201cAllah yer7am eyyem l khotbe\u201d<\/b>  <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/3oFzm25c9cyPt1TYDC\/giphy.gif\"width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>  Someone is always bitter about how things have changed since the engagement period:<br \/>  \u201c<i>Allah yer7am iyyem ma kinit tghanneele<\/i>\u201d <br \/>  \u201c<i>Allah yer7am iyyem ma kinit tdahhirne kil youm<\/i>\u201d <br \/>  \u201c<i>Allah yer7am iyyem ma kinit tdalli3ne<\/i>\u201d <\/p>\n<p>  <b>6. Compete with each other all the time<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  Such as the following examples:<br \/>  a. Baby is 2 minutes old: \u201c<i>Meen byshbah aktar? Ana wala immo?<\/i>\u201d <br \/>  b. \u201c<i>Meen bit7ibbo aktar? Ana walla baba?<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  <b>7. Take credit for their kids\u2019 achievements<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  \u201c<i>Zakeh tale3 la emmo<\/i>\u201d <br \/>  \u201c<i>Yo2borne tale3 riyadi metel bayyo<\/i>\u201d <\/p>\n<p>  <b>8. If the wife is the one doing the cooking, the husband always compares it to his mom\u2019s<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/8r7PDNvovhZqo\/giphy.gif\"width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>  The husband will say things like: \u201c<i>Akel emmeh atyab\/ laykeh, di2eela la emmeh s2aliya kif bta3mel l loubyeh, bit3almik<\/i>\u201d, and the wife will retort with, &#8220;<i>Ana aslan bi bayte ma kenet otbokh, kenet m3azaze mkarame<\/i>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Lebanese culture has the most peculiar pattern of social relationships, and perhaps the most peculiar, and funny, is the relationship between a Lebanese married 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