Blended Families

“Your most important friendships should be with your own brothers and sisters and with your father and mother. Love your family. Be loyal to them. Have a genuine concern for your brothers and sisters. Help carry their load so you can say, like the lyrics of the song, ‘He ain't heavy; he’s my brother.” I wish I could tell you my brothers and sisters are my most important friendships, but they are not. My best friend is my mother. I have been close with her since day one. It is different when you have a combined family it’s just not the same as a normal family. In my opinion, it has always been split since my parents got married the step kids as a group, and my side as a group. We did not get along and we still struggle to get along. There are some very strong personalities and opinions about the whole combined family and marriage. To me, it has never felt like we have come together as a whole loving family combined. My parents raised us right and did the best they could do. But now ...

The world is full of stress, anxiety, and depression. People take stress, anxiety, and depression and make them their personality.  Why? Receiving attention and pleasure is what I think. Each of us will have our own Fridays – those days when the universe seems shattered and the shards of our world lie littered about us in pieces. We all will experience those broken times when it seems we can never be put together again. We will all have our Fridays. I testify to you in the name of the One who conquered death – Sunday will come. In the darkness of our sorrow, Sunday will come. No matter our desperation, no matter our grief, Sunday will come. In this life or the next, Sunday will come.” -Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin   Family crises happen and we had one big one in our family. My brother attempted to kill himself and it affected every single one of us. My mom and dad struggled with what to do, and how to help and support him. I was sad and was questioning a lot of things. Why wo...

“Just as Jesus used a child in His mortal ministry as an example for the people of the pure love they must and could have to be like Him, He has offered us the family as an example of an ideal setting in which we can learn how to love as He loves. That is because the greatest joys and the greatest sorrows we experience are in family relationships. The joys come from putting the welfare of others above our own. That is what love is.” -President Henry B. Eyring Since I have been in college for the past two years I have dated. This type of dating is different from high school dating let me tell you. Back in high school, it was all about having fun and making memories. Here in college, it is a level up it is about getting to know someone and dating seriously. When it comes to serious dating, I mean boyfriend and girlfriend meeting the family the whole bit. You are trying to find a companion, partner, spouse, best friend to spend the rest of your life with. Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a ma...

"Meanwhile, mortal misunderstandings can make mischief in marriage. In fact, each marriage starts with two built-in handicaps. It involves two imperfect people. Happiness can come to them only through their earnest effort. Just as harmony comes from an orchestra only when its members make a concentrated effort, harmony in marriage also requires a concerted effort. That effort will succeed in each partner will minimize personal demands and maximize actions of loving selflessness.” President Russell M. Nelson I would like to share some of my views on marriage being in a combined family. Like I said at first my mother and father got divorced. My mom was nineteen years old when she got married. Did she want to get married, no she has told me she was not ready by any means? I think any girl that is nineteen years old is not ready for marriage. She had just graduated high school and went to college for about a year. She was just having fun meeting new people and going on multiple dating...