The interplay between Emma and Joseph as a married couple is instructive. The picture painted here in Section 25 is that of two people thoroughly given to the cause of the Church and the building up of Zion. These are selfless individuals who have hearts and hands only for the Lord's work. The words none else eliminate everyone and everything. The spouse then becomes preeminent in the life of the husband or wife, and neither social life nor occupational life nor political life nor any other interest nor person nor thing shall ever take precedence over the companion spouse .
Marriage presupposes total allegiance and total fidelity .
Of course melding two lives into one in marriage is not without its difficulties. One specific challenge to following these divine directions given to Emma is the confusion that can and does exist over the different natures that men and women have. Never can two of the same gender fulfill the commandment to multiply and replenish the earth . Only a woman can bestow upon man that supernal title of father. She in turn becomes a mother.