My Sunday School teacher said (back when I was going) "you have to be married to get into the Celestial Kingdom."

But, what if your spouse has died, or you WERE married but now divorced, does that count? What if you are intending to get married but you both die when you are just engaged, does that count?

Did anybody ever ask those questions? I was always too intimidated to ask and too lazy/uninterested to look it up.

In the celestial kingdom are three seperate levels.

Baptism is required to even enter.

No one talks about the middle level.

The highest level requires at least one spouse. If your spouse was not faithful or you couldn't find a spouse one or more will be provided for you.

The highest level is where one becomes a god, having eternal increase.

So no you don't need a spouse to enter, but you need at least one to become a god.

I was told in my twenties that if I was still single in my 40's to consider getting sealed in proxy to a guy that I believed was my soul mate who died young. If by then I hadn't met and married someone suitable for me.

He was someone (a never Mo,) who I dreamt about the night before we met that we were on our third honeymoon. Then I met him the following evening when he was introducing the guest speaker at a volunteer meeting we both attended.

I dreamt after he had died but before I knew he was gone that he and I were married in heaven.

That was during my time as a TBM. It was a bishop during my college days who told me that yes he and I could be married by proxy in the temple someday. Maybe since I'm no longer a Mormon I can hold my own marriage ceremony. I've always felt that he and I were meant to be together since we met.

I believe if there is reincarnation we are destined to meet again. That was the meaning of the "third honeymoon" in the dream I had before our first meeting I think. Was that this life was our third incarnation where we were brought together.

Yet there is no memory of past lives. When I die I expect my memory of this life will be scrubbed based on the life experience I've had with this past love of mine.