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(photo source: http://www.shutterstock.com) In chapter 37 of the book Helping and Healing our Families: Principles and Practices Inspired by "The Family: A Proclamation to The World ", J.M. Harper and S.F. Olson give great guidance and examples of why it's important for married couples have good relations with each other's family. Some of the most important of these reasons I feel, are:   Married couples leave their parents and "cleave unto their spouses" This guidance is scriptural, and found in the Bible (Genesis 2:24). Basically this commandment is set out to help us all to branch out and begin a new generation; full of learning, and accomplishments, and failures that we experience after leaving home. It is imperative for both spouses to "cleave" to one another in order to grow physically, emotionally and spiritually closer to each other (as in most cases, their parents did before them). If either or both spouses do not bre...

     I enjoyed reading Elder Eyring's article on becoming one ( Henry B. Eyring, “That We May Be One,” Ensign, May 1998, 66 ). I think the most powerful part of it was the third paragraph in which he said so much. Here it is (in bold) with my footnotes: "But with the Fall it became clear that living in unity would not be easy." (He's speaking of Adam & Eve right after the fall, when they are newlyweds and finally facing strife and contention). "Tragedy struck early. Cain slew Abel, his brother. The children of Adam and Eve had become subject to the temptations of Satan" (From living with perfection in everything and perfect immortal bodies, to dealing with two sons with such sibling rivalry that it ended in death. Imagine the hardship these parents faced!)      "With skill, hatred, and cunning, Satan pursues his goal ( selfishness ). It is the opposite of the purpose of our Heavenly Father and the Savior. They would give us ...