All of us collectively shared certain experiences prior to mortality, which suggests why people might be drawn to each other and exhibit common tendencies. Our spirits were fathered by the same eternal God, who nurtured us while we were with each other prior to our birth. (See Alma 13; Abraham 3:22-28) The conditions of premortal life were evidently not unlike the sociality that exists among us here. Each of us had a distinctive identity and gender. We possessed there “a pre-existent, spiritual personality, as the sons and daughters of the Eternal Father.” Therefore, our associations together in mortality and the idea of continuing our associations after death naturally sound both attractive and familiar to us.” — Bruce C. Hafen and Marie K. Hafen, “The Belonging: The Atonement and Relationships with God and Family Heart,” [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1994], p. 13