Really truly it is.
Honesty has a friend also. Her name is trust.
2 important, no vital characteristics in marriage. Without honestly in the relationship there can be no trust. Dishonestly severs those connections that were built in trust. Connections of trust take a long time to build, but only a moment to break.
Be honest in all things.
I was reading my LDS Marriage and Families manual tonight and have been reading a lot of other material pertaining to marriages recently and finances have been mentioned many times in my reading. Financial honesty is an extremely important issue because it seems to be the cause of much contention and divorce.
This post is a little all over the place mainly because I am a little all over the place all the time. With that said. I think that we as humans all have this desire to be trusted by other people. I know I do. I have always felt that way. I have always wanted to be the person that other people knew they could trust and come to talk to whenever about whatever. I hope I have been good about doing that. But consider for a moment how hard it would be for others to trust me if they knew I wasn't honest. Overall it would just be a bad situation. And I think we all know that. I mean I am pretty sure we learned it in kindergarten.
So why do you think we struggle with it?
Or maybe lots of people really don't struggle with it. Maybe it is just because it is so important that if you do struggle with it, it has far reaching and terribly negative effects.
The moral of this all over the place blog is found in the title.
Just remember Honestly (in everything, including married life) is the best policy.
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