Honoring Marital Vows With Complete Fidelity

In our text for our class, Successful Marriages and Families we read what President Spencer W. Kimball has said that, “Marriage presupposes total allegiance and total fidelity.  We marry with the understanding that we will give ourselves completely to our spouse and that any divergence is sin.  We show our faithfulness to God by loving him with all our 'heart, might, mind and strength'.  We show fidelity to our spouse in the same ways.  Indeed, our souse is the only other being besides God, whom we are commanded to love with all our heart.  We are commanded to love our spouse with all our heart and cleave unto non else" (Gardner, 2012, p. 59).”

There are many types of infidelity, that don't necessarily even deal with adultery.  Infidelity comes in various forms.  Satan likes to use distraction and grey areas as a way to get people to head opposite of where they should be.

President Spencer W. Kimball has said that, “Marriage presupposes total allegiance and total fidelity.”

In our text for our class, Successful Marriages and Families we read that “We marry with the understanding that we will gives ourselves completely to our spouse and that any divergence is sin. We show our faithfulness to God by loving him with all our “heart, might, mind, and strength,” (D&C 4:2). We show fidelity to our spouse in the same ways. Indeed our spouse is the only other being besides God whom we are commanded to love with all our heart” (pg. 59).

We also read that there are many types of infidelity and appear to be four general types of infidelity:  fantasy, visual, romantic and sexual.  “It is important to point out that it does not take two people for infidelity to occur.  Many times infidelity is committed within the mind or heart of a married individual with no other participating party” (p.60).

• Fantasy Infidelity
• Visual Infidelity/Pornography
• Romantic Infidelity
• Sexual Infidelity (Hawkins, 2012, pp. 60-62)

(The day my husband, my son and I were sealed in the Chicago Temple 2007)

Elder Holland talks about our fidelity in this short video.  We need to have complete fidelity within our marriage.