"Indeed, Allah will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves..." This great verse came to my mind as I watched the comments of followers of the brilliant series "The Seventh Harsha" on social media pages, witnessing a cocktail of emotions ranging from indignation, condemnation, astonishment, aspiration, and dreaming for the male characters presented, especially the husbands in the series.

These comments reveal various aspects of resistance to change, which we all experience as we navigate the curve of change. This model was developed by Swiss-American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross to describe the five stages of grief experienced by people diagnosed with terminal illnesses.

Don't be surprised by the name, as it has gained wide acceptance and led to its adoption by those working in management studies to determine how people respond to different types of organizational change.

The curve consists of seven complete stages that a person goes through when facing change, which is often sudden: shock, denial, frustration, acceptance of reality, experimentation, searching for the meaning of change, and integration.

Upon closer examination of the stages of change, we will find that we all go through them at different phases, whether we overcome them, stumble, or stop. In the end, we must all navigate this curve.

Some comments that caught my attention expressed feelings of shock and immediate denial that there could be male examples of husbands who feel the pain of their wives and understand their anger. Even more surprising was a comment questioning how a man could allow his wife to think about what she loves to do.

This state of denial, accompanied by fear and terror, grips young women in Eastern societies when they see a new image that every few years God honors us with an author who strives to change the stereotypical image of the Egyptian family. They urge us to abandon the dramatic stereotypes presented by actor Rushdy Abaza in the past or the stereotype currently completed by actor Ahmed Ezz, which still inhabit girls' dreams that masculinity is about raising one's voice, humiliation, and suppressing women's personalities under the pretext of love.

Girls are afraid to dream of the existence of these mythical characters, as they say, which may prevent them from marrying someone who is understanding, listens, or has hopes of being treated as a life partner, not an employee in a system governed by a manager with an assistant.

Some of the comments from men also exemplified diligence and perseverance in attributing all accusations and negative qualities lacking masculinity to the models presented in the series, using slang words employed by young men and women of this generation to demean those actions with the goal of killing the dream before it can change a societal culture that has destroyed many families.

Most of the conversations that were exchanged primarily focused on the scenes where the husband contains his wife's anger, comprehends her feelings, accepts her loud voice, and understands the reasons behind it, especially after her breakdown from taking care of the twins she was blessed with. The resistance here calls for attention, as we have lived through many dramatic patterns for years where we accepted the merging of the spouses' anger and irritability over trivial and controlling matters. But now, when the staff of Moses turns, it seems the world turns upside down!

Why do we resist replacing the images that have consumed us as families, and see disintegration here and there? Why don't we allow ourselves to accept change, experiment, and go through the seven stages to see if integration is the solution or if there are other solutions? Workers in production in Egypt cling to millions and quick profits, and seek media buzz which, unfortunately, is offered by all programs, motivating them to continue and strengthening resistance to change.

How can we change ourselves if the routine social idea of marriage, procreation, and painting married life as a prison where neither party holds the key, accompanies us, unless we start with ourselves and accept the ideas that are being sent to us from here and there?

Imagine societies with families built on the idea of participation, containment, and support from both parties.

Societies built on the art of listening to one's life partner and fully understanding their problems and helping them overcome them.

Societies that do not repeat sterile phrases that we cite about wives and husbands from past eras and how they endured and persevered as if suffering and hardship are inherited genes that prevent our progress and leave us living as dead men and women.

In this case, the resistance to change will move in two directions. The first is the prevailing reality or the current models that struggle to stand and remain until the end, in the shadow of another direction that we see in a few writers who make attempts to shake the stagnant ideas in the minds to break and stir the stagnant water with models that radiate hope in the youth and girls, the future of any nation and its construction.