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Latter Day Struggles

107: Can a Marriage Survive After one Partner Departs from their Plan of Eternal Orthodoxy?

Latter Day Struggles

Valerie Hamaker

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Religion

4.4721 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: Psychological Health Check on LDS Theology of Marriage & Family [Part XII of XII] In this final guest-interview portion of their ‘Eternal Marriage Theology Health Check’ series, Valerie visits with a married couple who shares their journey from early Mormon orthodoxy (which came naturally for him and felt like an ill-fitting costume for her) to their current stance as a couple whose primary allegiance shifted away from the LDS church and its belie...

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0:00.0

Hi, Latter Day struggles, friends and fans.

0:03.1

We know that navigating a faith crisis can feel overwhelming, especially when it impacts our closest relationships, our parents, our partners, and our kids.

0:13.2

That's why Valerie has created two online self-paced classes to help.

0:17.3

The first is a couple's guide to faith crisis and expansion.

0:20.7

This class is here for a partner

0:21.9

or couple who want to navigate faith shifts with mutual respect and deeper connection. Next is

0:26.8

a family's guide to mixed faith parenting. This class offers tools to help parents develop

0:30.7

greater harmony and understanding when belief differences arise within our families. Both classes are

0:35.7

packed with helpful tools and perspectives that can

0:37.9

give you hope and a way forward. So if you're looking for a little guidance on this,

0:41.6

visit laddarday struggles.com to learn more. And now let's start the show.

0:59.6

Hey everybody, welcome to Latter Day Struggles.

1:00.6

This is Valerie.

1:13.0

So before we get started on this next episode, I wanted to just give you a little bit of an introduction to this couple and something that I have been working on as a product of my work, not only with this couple, but with the realizations that I've had as I have been doing this

1:17.1

series on the eternal marriage doctrine here in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,

1:22.8

you're going to be tickled with and thoroughly enjoy this conversation that I had with Brian and Jenny,

1:29.4

who are once again, a couple of people who I have met in my small groups who are just near and

1:34.9

dear to my heart. You're going to be hearing their tumultuous story and beautiful story

1:40.9

about how as a couple, they have been navigating the rough waters of faith expansion,

1:47.9

especially in the case when one partner goes before the other partner. And that is actually what

1:53.9

I am learning very, very typical. So as I have been dropping these last episodes for the last several weeks about faith expansion,

2:03.8

especially as it regards the plan of happiness or the eternal marriage doctrine, what has

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