Nathaniel Free answered...
While a Protestant, I became deeply troubled with things pertaining to marriage. I wanted to know what would become of our relationships after death, especially with regard to my future wife. I took the matter before my pastor. His response did not put my mind to ease. In short, he replied, "Till death do you part." I could not imagine how a deep and abiding love shared over a lifetime would simply cease at death. It was unbiblical! After all, did not God institute marriage? In the Garden of Eden, Adam declared, "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh," (Gen. 2:24). I felt in my heart that marriage was meant to endure forever, for death did not exist for those newlyweds. It continued, even after their Fall: "Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living," (Gen. 3:20). As I continued to learn the principles of eternal marriage, the spirit bore witness to me that it was true. Jesus Christ said, "What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder," (Matt. 19:6) The Prophet Joseph Smith revealed that the "same sociality which exists among us here will exist among us there [in eternity], only it will be coupled with eternal glory” (D&C 130:2). So declared Paul, "Neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord." Indeed, "the whole family [is] in heaven," (Eph. 3:14-15).
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