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As wives, women are faced with many pressures, including perfecting various new roles, finding balance between roles, enhancing marital relationships, and eventually caring for children. With so many pressures, some women struggle to find happiness and meaning in life. However, life was meant to bring joy! How can we find happiness in whatever situation we are in? How are we to balance our roles?

 

James E. Faust counseled, "You cannot be a 100% wife, a 100% mother, a 100% church worker, a 100% career person, and a 100% public-service worker at the same time.  How can all of these roles be coordinated? Says Sarah Davidson: 'The only answer I come up with is that you can have it sequentially. At one stage you may emphasize career, and at another marriage and nurturing young children, and at any point you will be aware of what is missing. If you are lucky, you will be able to fit everything in.'


Doing things sequentially, filling roles one at a time at different times is not always possible, as we know, but it gives a woman the opportunity to do each thing well in its time and to fill a variety of roles in her life. A woman does not necessarily have to track a career like a man does. She may fit more than one career into the various seasons of life. She need not try to sing all of the verses of her song at the same time." (A Message to My Granddaughters: Becoming Great Women. Ensign, Sept. 1986, 16.)


Although all humans experience periods of difficulty, there are some situations which are not healthy and which should not be endured. These situations include emotional, sexual and physical abuse, as well as other situations that make a person feel uncomfortable, afraid or manipulated. Please see our information on abuse and domestic violence for more descriptors and information. 

 

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