Can One Mormon Woman be Sealed to Two Men? - Rebecca Lucero Jones Pt. 2 | Ep. 2086
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 155 minutes
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Summary
In part two of this important series with Rebecca Lucero Jones, we explore the question: What happens when a Mormon widow tries to be sealed to two men? In the LDS faith, a man can be sealed to a second wife if his first wife passes away. But, as we will learn from Rebecca’s story, Mormon widows do not receive the same treatment.
After the death of her first husband, Rebecca describes what it was like to find a second chance at love and marriage. She then shares her experience requesting a “second-sealing clearance” from LDS Church leaders (in order to be sealed to her living husband), and what their ultimate response to this request was.
We also discuss how current policies complicate questions of the afterlife for these families. These policies leave widows feeling uncertain about their place in eternity and, in turn, often undesired by Mormon men who hope to avoid this existential confusion.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Mormon stories podcast. I'm your host John DeLinn. I want to let you know you're joining us for part two of a two-part series with Rebecca Lucero. This episode is all about what happens when you become a widow in the Mormon church as a woman, you are sealed to your first husband and he dies. |
| 0:26.0 | And then you find a new partner while you're young. |
| 0:29.6 | You have children with your first husband. |
| 0:31.7 | Then you decide that after grieving the death of your first spouse, you want to get married and build a new life |
| 0:39.3 | with your second Mormon spouse what do you do who are you sealed to in the afterlife can you |
| 0:45.5 | get temple married to a second husband if you're a woman what happens to you know your eternal |
| 0:51.8 | sealing to your first husband who are your children with your |
| 0:55.0 | first husband sealed to? And then more importantly, do you build a life with the second husband |
| 1:00.2 | whom you're not going to be sealed to in the afterlife? If you have kids with the second husband, |
| 1:05.3 | who are those kids sealed to in the afterlife? And basically what this episode is about is |
| 1:10.4 | kind of how eternal Mormon families |
| 1:13.2 | or eternal Mormon ceilings in the Mormon temple or marriages can become a nightmare. |
| 1:21.5 | Please go back and watch part one with Rebecca Lucero. If you haven't, I'll give you a brief summary. |
| 1:27.3 | In part one, we talked about Rebecca |
| 1:29.6 | growing up in the church, having her family divorce, her parents divorced at a very young age, |
| 1:36.3 | and then having her double down and decide she's going to do everything to get her eternal |
| 1:40.7 | marriage and to keep her family intact. And so she goes to BYU isn't able to find a husband there, tries, |
| 1:48.9 | because she's very business-minded and career-minded. |
| 1:52.6 | She feels like the Mormon men at BYU aren't as interested in her. |
| 1:56.4 | She ends up dating a few gay men, |
| 1:59.1 | and she wonders why only gay Mormon men are attracted to her. Long story short, she ends up dating a few gay men, and she wonders why only gay Mormon men are attracted to her. |
| 2:02.3 | Long story short, she ends up finding an eternal companion. |
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