Some Muslim women emphasise that it is a choice, that
perhaps at a certain point in their lives they feel ready for it: they do not see it as an imposition by their religion, but a voluntary way of showing their adherence.
He is also,
at that
point in his
life, overly conscientious,
perhaps because of his own repressed sense of guilt, so he finds her reckless for having the gun, smoking, or using
certain words
in front of their children, but he knows what a great mother she is.