A Family United

This week, we have been learning about counsels and family unity, especially unity between a husband and wife. I took a parenting class last semester and it was one of my all time favorite classes. A major component of that class was dedicated to learning about counseling together, one on one and as a whole family. I think that counseling together is something that can really make or break marital relationships and is something that is often over looked between couples. 

When I was younger, my dad would do father's interviews on fast Sundays. We would have the opportunity to sit down one on one with him and talk about things. He would as us about our lives, friends, struggles we were having and offer advice and guidance where he needed to. I wish that I had taken those moments to build a better relationship with my dad than I had. My parents also would talk together, for hours it seemed sometimes. They would pray together and go to the temple when trying to make decisions. I didn't always feel they were very united, but I know that they put effort into doing so and things worked out in the end. 

My husband and I have been married for over three years now. When we were engaged, I had a mini panic moment, I was so worried that once we got married we would run out of things to talk about with each other because we would know everything already. We haven't been married for very long, but for the three years we have, we have never run out of things to talk about. We talk to each other about pretty much everything, any chance we get to be together we are talking to each other about something.

My husband is my best friend. We do everything we can together and I miss him when he is gone. We are so similar, yet we are so different. I love how Elder Eyring puts this, he says, "A man and his wife learn to be one by using their similarities to understand each other and their differences to complement each other in serving one another and those around them." Men and women are two different parts and neither is perfect, but together we create a whole that can become perfect. 

Eyring, H. (1998). That We May Be One. Ensign. [online] Available at: http://file:///C:/Users/mcgil/Downloads/faml300_document_lds.orgEnsignArticleThatWeMayBeOne.pdf [Accessed 27 Nov. 2019].