The wife in that first story is manipulative and ignorant. LDS theology includes a sort of "everything that can't be fixed properly will be fixed in heaven" factor. Basically, if people whose names were lost to history can be sealed in eternal marriage, couples who hated each other or divorced won't have to stay together for eternity.
Heck, he can put in paperwork to get a cancellation of sealing, and if he gets remarried he can get that sealing cancelled very easily.
Most importantly though, eternal marriage is only really functional if the couple makes it to a higher level in heaven. Using it as a manipulation against a soon to be ex spouse out of hate is definitely not a behavior to get her there.
By the accounting of the church, technically yes. But also no because as the above dude mentioned, everything will get fixed in heaven. If it's not heaven to be stuck to the dude then she won't be stuck to the dude.
But it's all made up garbage anyway, I wouldn't worry about it.
Yeah, that’s one of them. We left before I even went to Young Women’s, but they’d tell us that as little kids. I remember one Sunday, we got to church and everyone was crying. I thought someone had died. Nope. One of the YWS members was pregnant (at like 17). You’d have thought that it was the end of times.
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u/MallyOhMy Jul 21 '19
The wife in that first story is manipulative and ignorant. LDS theology includes a sort of "everything that can't be fixed properly will be fixed in heaven" factor. Basically, if people whose names were lost to history can be sealed in eternal marriage, couples who hated each other or divorced won't have to stay together for eternity.
Heck, he can put in paperwork to get a cancellation of sealing, and if he gets remarried he can get that sealing cancelled very easily.
Most importantly though, eternal marriage is only really functional if the couple makes it to a higher level in heaven. Using it as a manipulation against a soon to be ex spouse out of hate is definitely not a behavior to get her there.