Relationships

I heard a wonderful talk one week in Auburn CA from a Stake President about relationships.  I ate everything that he said up!

He started by saying that he heard on the radio a commercial about training dogs.  It said something to the effect of if you want to have a good dog you need to give them love, praise, and affection.   The Stake President said, now why can so many people to these principles and apply them so easily to a dog, but if they take those same principles and apply them to their spouses, it is a lot harder.

-I thought about this and was like holy cow this is soooo true.  It is a lot easier for some people to give their  animals praise, love, and affection, but not their spouses.   It is crazy how true this statement is.

Here are some more thoughts he had:
Be humble:  allow the healing power of the Atonement to work in our relationships.
Don't be arrogant enough to put any problem above the Atonement.
Be humble enough to take hour weaknesses and trials to the Lord.

Forgive: Our unwillingness to forgive is the greatest source of our misery.
Don't put restrictions on the Atonement of forgiveness in your relationship.

Our Heavenly Father has to be a huge part of our relationships.

Go to the temple often.  There is nothing that is beyond the healing capacity of the temple.

The purpose of eternal families is for us to be happy.. we can be wonderfully happy!

A good relationship takes work, effort, Atonement, commitment, LOVE, PRAISE, AFFECTION, and soooo much more.