It is essential to have a healthy relationship with our extended family to maintain a peaceful environment for ourselves and others as we are all connected regardless of distance. .By doing this, we are also respecting and loving the family that is closer to us.
This does not mean to ignore negative emotions when conflict arises, but more importantly by creating a non-toxic environment family will be able to express emotions congruently and with respect.
President Spencer W. Kimball said, “Frequently, people continue to cleave unto their mothers and their fathers… Sometimes mothers will not relinquish the hold they have had upon their children, and husbands as well as wives return to their mothers and fathers to obtain advice and counsel and to confide whereas cleaving should be to the wife in most things…”
As President Kimball said, as marriage ordinances are made, a new goal is being made; our Lord rejoices in unity and we must respect other family unit because at the end, we all have a divine goal to reach the presence of God as a family. All in all, it evident that in a family we cannot choose the different personalities we surround us with but we must remember as members of the church of Jesus Christ that families are sacred and have a dive purpose and with the Savior’s help we will be blessed by loving and forgiving others despite differences and unchanged situations.
For a Functional Family 