Personally I would love to increase my relationship with most of my family on both sides and I can’t imagine not being with Kim forever.

We are continually told that we’ll be with our families forever, but doesn’t that ultimately mean we’ll all be together (I mean, of those who make it).

For example, in the “Families are Forever” scenario, I would be together forever with my wife and children. The same could be said for my parents: they will be with each other and their children. This means, of course, that not only will I be with my wife and my children, but also my parents, my siblings, my brothers/sisters-in-law, and my nephews and nieces. The same could be said of my parents’ parents: they will be with each other and heir children. This means of course that not only will I be with my wife, children, parents, siblings, siblings-in-law, nephews and nieces, I will also be with my grandparents, my uncles, my aunts, my cousins, my children’s second cousins, and so forth.

This pattern, presumably, could be followed right back to Adam and then back down every branch of Adam’s family tree.

So, I am not sure the phrase “Families can Be Together forever” really has much meaning.

Personally, I think spouses will be together. I am doubtful of the existence of any other family relationship existing in the afterlife.

I mean, when I think of my ‘family’ I certainly don’t restrict the meaning of the word to ‘only my wife’.

This seems to me, as a never-mormon, a bit misleading.

I don’t understand on what basis other posters are speculating that they will be “with” only a portion of their family and not with others. Where does this idea come from? The contrary seems more consistent with doctrine–the sealing power was given so that all the generations could be joined together in a continuous chain, back through our Father Adam, and on through to our Father in Heaven through Christ. Without this chain we cannot be brought back into the family of God. So what makes it seem that we will be compartmented into small, discrete family units that don’t interact with one another?

As I stated above, ltbugaf, anything else isn’t really “being together with our family” any more than it is being together wit everyone in the celestial kingdom.

“This seems to me, as a never-mormon, a bit misleading.”

It’s not just the never-Mormons who find it misleading, Rick.

This makes it sound like it’s my problem… I’m pretty sure that given a perfection of self, they’ll come around to my way of thinking…

“Reject such a life, and you won’t have it.”

This is not really sounding like such a bad option, given the fact that I don’t really think I’d like it, if it matches the descriptions I’ve heard thus far.

(I’m also concerned about the tone I have been taking in some comments I have made on other “thoughts.” I pledge to be more constructive and less concerned with arguing for argument’s sake. With that in mind, I hope you’ll understand that my remarks here are not meant to be cutting.)