Adjusting to In-Laws
President Spencer W. Kimball
“Couples do well to immediately find their own home, separate and apart from that of the in-laws on either side. The home may be very modest and unpretentious, but still it is an independent domicile. Your married life should become independent of her folks and his folks. You love them more than ever; you cherish their counsel; you appreciate their association; but you live your own lives, being governed by your decisions, by your own prayerful considerations after you have received the counsel from those who should give it. To cleave does not mean merely to occupy the same home; it means to adhere closely, to stick together:
“‘Wherefore, it is lawful that . . . they twain shall be one flesh, and all this that the earth might answer the end of its creation;
“‘And that it might be filled with the measure of man, according to his creation before the world was made.’ ( D&C 49:16–17 .)” ( “Oneness in Marriage,” Ensign, Mar. 1977, 5 ).