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This article would be important to read if your husband has a time-consuming calling as Bishop, etc., or if the wife also has a calling such as Relief Society President.  Very helpful and inspiring ideas! Side by Side: How Your Marriage Can Survive Church Service By JeaNette Goates Smith  · June 22, 2017 Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE Many years ago my husband was called to serve as the bishop of a seriously struggling ward. He spent many hours at the church, late nights visiting troubled members and endless hours on the telephone. It felt our marriage wouldn’t survive. During a time of deep despair I attended a professional seminar with other Marriage and Family Therapists. This was a seminar where they arranged for some small group interaction where we could be therapeutic resources to one another. There was one woman at the seminar who wasn’t even a therapist and I kind of eyed her with suspicion and wo...

This is very interesting.   However, I have heard it all before, and totally believe it.  Otherwise, why would we as women, want to live worthy of exaltation?  Woman are truly loved and respected in our Church! Church Releases New Essays About Heavenly Mother & Women and the Priesthood by LDS Living  | Oct. 23, 2015 From the Church   Makes You Think The Church recently released two new Gospel Topics Essays that address the reality of our Heavenly Mother as well as the role of women within the Church. Beginning in November 2013, the Church began publishing in-depth essays on topics of special public interest and sensitivity--essays designed to clarify and provide transparency regarding aspects of the LDS faith. Since that time, Latter-day Saints and those from other beliefs have gained many insights from the  Gospel Topics Essays , insights regarding topics like plural marriage in the Church, race and the priesthoo...