Marriage

Elder Oaks said, "Latter-day Saint spouses should do all within their power to preserve their marriages . . . to avoid so-called incompatibility they should be best friends, kind and considerate, sensitive to each other's needs, always seeking to make each other happy. They should be partners in family finances, working together to regulate their desires for temporal things." He went on to say in contemplating marriage that "a good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection."

~Elder Dallin H. Oaks, General Conference address, April 2007