Responding To Challenges Of Marriage:

Responding to challenges of marriage:

These are notes I took on a marriage class.

Expectation is one the biggest causes of a troubled marriage.
We are responsible for our own anger. Anger is a yielding to Satin’s influence. It is the sin that leads to hostile behavior. Uncheck anger can quickly lead to an explosion of harsh words.
Elder Scott: interviewed a couple. Increase the peat and happiness in marriage at a BYU education week.
Q: has your sealing/marriage been all the happiness you expected. Yes. Now we can do everything together.
Q: how does he show his appreciation to you? He does little things for me.
What does your wife do to make you happy? Everything she does make me happy.
Do you make vital decisions together? We talk and discuss things that are coming up in our future. We rely upon Heavenly Father and make decisions by involving God.
Q: how do you determine the highest priority in your marriage? Ever since we’ve met we have priorities. We meet together to reach the same goals. With common goals everting around follows that goal.
Have you disagreed in our marriage? We have opportunities to learn and grow tougher. Because we have had different backgrounds we have different opinions. But we go to the lord help us come to a mutual decision.
Do you study the scriptures together? We do after we have personal study and we come up with questions and we discuss those questions and we discuss it.
Q: when I study scriptures with my wife. We would comment as we read. We will often direct our personal studies on topics that are the current concerns we have.
Advice: the greatest things is spending personal time with my wife to ensure we have personal time with my wife and continue to fall in love with one another.
President McKay says there is one time you can yell at your wife when the fire is on fire.
What is the difference between a contract and a convenient? A contract is a legal agreement between two people. Covenant: Promise God becomes part of the agreement.
You bring God into your marriage by aligning your lives to God and Christ’s principals.
How does agency come into a contract: It is always our choice to follow through with our promises with God.
The family is Staten’s primary target.
We combat Satan’s efforts by determining our actions.
We often want to apply our own solutions by relying upon ourselves. We don’t want to bother God with our concerns. We need to include God to help us.
Ask, what is Satan doing to our kids and not just parents.
Often a disagreement is actually just a miscommunication. Each partner is not trying to upset one another. Council with each other and with the Lord can help combat miscommunications. Counsel with love and trust that your partner has your best interests at heart.
Mosiah 18:21
1 John 4:18
1 Peter 4:8
John 13:34-35
John 16:33
2 Nephi 31:20
D&C 24:8
Alma 38:12
3 Ne3phi 11:19-20
Mosiah 3:19