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Staying Connected With Your Spouse

When it comes to holding your family together, it is important to realize that your marriage is the foundation of your family. It is important to constantly work at this relationship. As you nurture it, you will be able to reach out to your children better, and work as a team to achieve your goals as a family. One of the most common problems that couples face is that they stop feeling connected with each other. One of the ways that you can continue to feel connected to your spouse is to continue to date. This is a wonderful opportunity … Continue reading →

Committing to Eternal Marriage

Eternal marriage is a wonderful blessing of being a Latter-Day Saint. It is important to remain worthy, so that you will be able to marry in the temple when the time comes. Once you have achieved the goal of a temple marriage, it is important to continue to live so that you are temple worthy. Here are five ideas to help you to strengthen your eternal marriage. 1) Once you are married in the temple go regularly. You should also take time to remember the covenants you made in the temple. You can easily do this by doing sealings around … Continue reading →

Marriage Fights: Religion

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You might be surprised to see ‘religion’ on the list today. Perhaps you think that if you married your spouse in the temple, you are obviously on the same page. Sadly, this is not true. You may attend the same church but have a different idea of what it means to be a practicing Latter-day Saint. These different ideas may well lead to tension and fights. {With so many levels of possible devotion, I’m going to assume for this blog both spouses are active in the church.) As a convert, I for some reason assumed that a temple marriage was … Continue reading →

Pray and Plan to Help Your Family

The family is a very important part of our church. Each family is essential in the plan of salvation. “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” states: “Husband and wife have a solemn responsibility to love and care for each other and for their children. ‘Children are an heritage of the Lord’ (Psalms 127:3). Parents have a sacred duty to rear their children in love and righteousness, to provide for their physical and spiritual needs, to teach them to love and serve one another, to observe the commandments of God and to be law-abiding citizens wherever they live. Husbands and … Continue reading →

Being of One Purpose

One important part of marriage is being of one purpose. It is important that you and your spouse have the same destination in mind, when it comes to your relationship. Since we believe in eternal marriage, this is especially important. Your marriage should be focused on returning to live with Heavenly Father and helping your children to do the same. Sometimes it helps to sit down and actually write down the purpose or goals that you want to achieve in your relationship in your marriage, as well as your family relationships. It can be a mission statement for you or … Continue reading →

Five Goals to Work on as a Couple

One way to help your marriage is to have you and your spouse work on the same goals together. These can be goals that you do as a couple or individual goals that you are both working on. As you support each other in achieving these goals your relationship should grow stronger. Here are five goals that you can work on as a couple. 1) One important goal to consider is to have couple prayer and scripture study together. This will give you the opportunity to grow together spiritually. It is helpful to discuss the scriptures over with someone else … Continue reading →