I like to tell a young couple who are being married that they, in the marriage relationship, ought to look first to one another, as they do across the altar during their marriage—not first to their parents, not first to their siblings, not first to their friends, but in solving all of their problems, they should look first to one another, because the unity between them under the presiding, loving authority of a Heavenly Father in that triangle you spoke of earlier is what will get them over the inevitable problems of marriage.


Dallin H. Oaks, Roundtable Discussion (Dallin H. Oaks, Jeffrey R. Holland, Julie B. Beck, Susan W. Tanner, Cheryl C. Lant) - Worldwide Leadership Training Meeting: Building Up a Righteous Posterity, February 9, 2008