Marriage Isn't For You

[BCSpace]

My dad giving his response to my concerns was such a moment for me. With a knowing smile he said, “Seth, you’re being totally selfish. So I’m going to make this really simple: marriage isn’t for you. You don’t marry to make yourself happy, you marry to make someone else happy. More than that, your marriage isn’t for yourself, you’re marrying for a family. Not just for the in-laws and all of that nonsense, but for your future children. Who do you want to help you raise them? Who do you want to influence them? Marriage isn’t for you. It’s not about you. Marriage is about the person you married.”

 

http://sethadamsmith.com/2013/11/02/marriage-isnt-for-you/

 

[Kenngo1969]

Seth Adam Smith is also responsible (at least in part: Rick Satterfield is the Web master of the site on which this appears) for things such as this: http://www.ldschurchtemples.com/manti/video/

[thesometimesaint]

Sometimes it is really hard raising parents.

[EllenMaksoud]

And, there are folk for whom Marriage is really NOT for them. There are Mormons, some well known that have not and will not marry, for various reasons. Heavenly Father loves them too.

[telnetd]

And, there are folk for whom Marriage is really NOT for them. There are Mormons, some well known that have not and will not marry, for various reasons. Heavenly Father loves them too.

 

"All good things come from God. Everything that he does is 

to help his children become like him—a god. He has said, 

Behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the 

immortality and eternal life of man (Moses 1:39) (Gospel

Principles, 1997). This is only possible with exaltation.  

 

Those who purposely remain single and encourage others

to do the same are against God's work.

 

Gail

[strappinglad]

[Those who purposely remain single and encourage others

to do the same are against God's work.

 

Gail

Maybe, but I am reasonably sure that there is room for singles in God's plan. There are currently a huge number of singles on the other side as a large proportion died without marriage. And for those who did marry for time, their marriage is dissolved upon death so they are single also. Then there are those who married and found it to be a singularly painful experience.