I love Douglas for eternity :)

I grew up with the concept of Eternal Marriage so I always feel like I understood the concept very well. At times this makes it difficult to understand someone would feel who has never heard of the concept of eternal marriage that is why I love this quote so much from Parley P. Pratt. I know part of God's plan are eternal families so that we can be in these loving bonds forever!

It is a long quote but really good...

"I received from (Joseph) the first idea of eternal family organization, and the eternal union of the sexes in those inexpressibly endearing relationships which non but the highly intellectual, the refined and pure in heart, know how to prize, and which are at the very foundations of everything worthy to be called happiness.

Till then I had learned to esteem kindred affections and sympathies as appertaining solely to this transitory state, as something from which the heart must be entirely weaned, in order to be fitted for its heavenly state.

It was Joseph Smith who taught me how to prize the endearing relationships of father and mother, husband and wife; of brother and sister, son and daughter.

IT was from him that I learned that the wife of my bosom might be secured to me for time and all eternity; and that the refined sympathies and affections which endeared us to each other emanated from the fountain of divine eternal love. It was from him that I learned that we might cultivate these affections, and grow and increase in the same to all eternity; while the result of our endless union would be an offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven or the sands of the sea shore...

I had loved before, but I know not shy. But now I loved--with a pureness--and intensity of elevated exalted feeling, which would lift my soul from the transitory things of this grovelling sphere and expand it as the ocean. I felt that God was my heavenly Father indeed' that Jesus was my brother, and that the wife of my bosom was an immortal, eternal companion; a kind ministering angel, given to me as a comfort, and a crown of glory for ever and ever. In short, I could now love with the spirit and with the understanding also" (autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, Salt Lake city: Deseret Book Co., 1979, pp/ 297-98)