Jason Carroll: The Laws of Love as Taught by Jesus Christ

An address given by Jason Carroll, BYU Wheatley Institute, delivered February 13, 2024, at the Conference Center Theater.
Jason S. Carroll is an internationally recognized expert on flourishing marriages and readiness for marriage among young adults. In 2014, Dr. Carroll received the Distinguished Mid-Career Achievement Award for distinguished scientific achievement by the International Association for Relationship Research (IARR). He currently serves as the Director of the Family Initiative at the Wheatley Institute at Brigham Young University, where he is responsible for engaging students, scholars, thought leaders, and the public in research-supported work that fortifies the core institution of the family in society. He has also been a faculty member in BYU’s School of Family for the last 22 years.
Brother Carroll grew up at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon in Salt Lake City, Utah, before attending Brigham Young University for his undergraduate education. After also completing a master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy at BYU he later earned his doctorate degree in Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota.
Brother Carroll served a mission in the Chile, Viña del Mar mission and has since served in many capacities in the Church, including ward mission leader, bishopric counselor, stake high counselor, stake Sunday school president, and bishop. He is currently a youth Sunday School teacher in his ward.
He and his wife Stefani live in Draper Utah and are the blessed parents of five children and two grandchildren.

[@jonylexamar8060]

yes, i guess your are right, even the speaker is not perfect, we may have different situations in life. But we will still need guidance from the Lord in order to have lasting marriage relationship. We need all the help we can

[@ornelas2011]

Excellent talk. Are these going to be uploaded to the Ensign College Devotional Podcast?

[@phoenixrising5338]

That's ridiculous. Millions of people through history have had lasting marriages while having no idea at all about going to the temple. Also, I don't care how much "staying power" the endowment gives you, if you or your kids are being abused, get out!!! Not sure it's really about "staying power" so much as it's about having a healthy relationship.

[@GreatRemembrance]

He isn’t using the word lasting in a temporal way. Only the temple offers eternally lasting marriages. And never once did anyone say to stay in abuse. Good grief.

[@nathanbanks2935]

We should try hard to have true compassion for our family members, instead of selfish "love." We need to rely on Jesus Christ, to have the staying power of the best type of love, which is charity. It's this love that can help us to be transformed into the Devine nature, that God has. Charity is cultivated by trying to gather Israel on both sides of the veil of death. We should try to go to the temple as often as we can, and try to bless those around us to show them the compassion that Christ taught us to have.

[@phoenixrising5338]

@@nathanbanks2935 Okay. How is any of this relevant to anything I said?