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From the article: Last time we looked at how Mormon temples divide families and how controlling the Mormon Church is, even dictating who can and can't, should and shouldn't be invited to a temple wedding. This control extends to even the formal dress worn by the bride, groom and guests...“Unworthy” relatives and friends may be invited to a special meeting that “provides an opportunity for those who cannot enter the temple to feel included in the marriage.” How included they might feel is questionable since “no ceremony is performed, and no vows are exchanged” during this meeting. Given the distance most Mormons must travel to get to a temple it hardly seems worth the journey for “unworthy” members and non-members to sit in a room waiting to be told the bride and groom are now married...

From the article: But what if there are children from these previous relationships? Children born to temple-married parents are said to be “born in the covenant” but where will your kids go if a previously entered into sealing is revoked? What about children born out of wedlock? Foster children, adopted children? Children conceived by artificial insemination? What happens if two people who previously committed adultery now want to make their relationship legitimate? It gets complicated and, frankly, silly but it is all covered in the Mormon Handbook of Instructions...

When I was 16 and a typical romantic teenager, the idea of being married for eternity seemed appealing.

However, watching how most LDS husbands treat their wives, I almost came to dread it, but knew it was a requirement for my salvation in Mormonism.

Now, as a Christian, being married to another Christian, the idea of being married, of having THIS same type of relationship doesn’t interest me at all because I know that MrR and I, as believers, will have an even BETTER relationship in the next life, as brother and sister in Christ worshiping together for eternity.

Why would I settle for the Mormon idea when the reality is so much better.