Christina, my dearest friend here, lent me the book on marriage Covenant Hearts: Marriage and the Joy of Human Love by Bruce C. Hafen on Monday. Covenant Hearts is written by an experienced family lawyer and it covers marriage as the Mormon church believes it should be, along with the many problems the changes in the American legal systems has caused to marriage today. I haven’t read much of it yet, but today is a special day in the Mueller household, so I want to share some thoughts inspired by the book.

Because he is writing to an LDS readership and from the perspective of a Mormon, Hafen regularly discusses the difference between covenant marriages and contractual marriages.