Anatomy of Affair: How Affairs, Attractions, and Addictions Develop, and How to Guard Your Marriage Against Them

When it comes to adultery, never say, “It won’t happen to me.” With eye-opening stories, clinical insights, and up-to-date data, Dave reveals what adulterers learned the hard way—and what they want the rest of us to know to save us the pain.

 Dave helps you make your marriage adultery-proof by showing you:

•  How attractions can lead to affairs
•  Ways you may be vulnerable to affairs
•  The common ingredients of adultery
•  How to restore intimacy to your marriage
•  How to make wise, protective decisions
•  Includes charts and assessments to understand and guard against affairs.

 Marriage is too sacred to be taken casually. Affairs are a very real threat that can destroy lives and families. Anatomy of an Affair should be on every church leader’s and marriage counselor’s required reading list, and in the home of every married couple.

Dave Carder serves as Pastor of Counseling Ministries at First Evangelical Free Church of Fullerton, CA. His specialty is Adultery Recovery and Prevention for which he has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Network, Discovery Health, and The Learning Channel, has done training for the US Army and Navy, plus multiple tapings for The Tony Robbins Passion Project, Marriage Uncensored, 100 Huntley Street, Salvation Army Leadership Training, and the American Association of Christian Counselors. His interviews and articles have appeared in Ladies Home Journal, USA Today, The Counseling Connection, and various other magazines and journals. He is the author or co-author of Torn Asunder: Recovering from an Extramarital Affair, Close Calls: What Adulterers Want You to Know About Protecting Your Marriage, and Unlocking Your Family Patterns: Finding Freedom from a Hurtful Past.

He holds the Michigan Limited License for Psychology and the California Marital and Family Therapy license, and has graduate degrees in Biblical Literature and Counseling Psychology. Dave and his wife, Ronnie, have been married 49 years, have four adult children, and eight grandchildren.