At the end of seventeen days the marriage was over for the other couple. They will not go on to exaltation in the eternal worlds. Well, you love them in direct proportion to how long you want to spend with them in the family unit. Now there is not anything which is good and wholesome that is withheld from a couple because of a celestial marriage. Through faith, devotion, and conformity to the covenant that goes with celestial marriage, I can have the sanctifying influence of the love of Christ in my home, and I can have the hope of eternal union and eternal companionship hereafter.
Nothing is denied a person through celestial marriage.
Everything that is right and good is available and then much, much more in addition. We have counsel to love the Lord our God with all our hearts, might, minds, and strength, counsel that comes in language very similar to the command to love our wives, because it is a command similar in nature. We love the Lord in direct proportion to how much we keep his commandments, how fully and devotedly we do so. This same principle, that of obedience, applies also in measuring love between husbands and wives. You love your wife, in other words, in direct proportion to how faithfully and diligently you comply with the laws and ordinances of the gospel, because only in and through such compliance can you be assured of the continuation of the family unit in eternity.