I wrote this letter at a Young Women activity when I was in high school. Many of our weeknight activities were centered on preparing for marriage and motherhood. I assume we must have been given a prompt to write about the type of person we wanted to marry.

The letter reads:

Someone who has an eternal mindset

Someone who is worthy of the temple/priesthood

Someone who can provide for me (has a good education)

Someone who loves christ & has a testimony of him.

Someone who wants children, but not too many.

Someone who likes to experience things

Someone who is mature but has a sense of humor

Someone who attends church meetings, always.

Well, basically someone who is perfect, well maybe just close to it.

I want to be perfect for my future husband too.

So, I’ll keep myself clean now and strive to continually become a better person. I would appreciate it if he would do at least some of the house type work.

I need to come to terms with some things I guess, like that I’m not going to be able to do art throughout my whole marriage & that I’m going to have to stay home with the kids a lot.

I need to work on homemaking skills too, as much as I dread them.

I’d like to be able to share my interests with my husband, travel with him. I want to do a lot with him so he better be able to handle it

I just want to be so happy with my husband.

I want him to understand my qu(i)rks & how weird I am. I want to be able to talk to him about anything. I want him to protect me & care for me. I want to know he is the one for me.

Hayley Labrum