Protecting And Strengthening Your Marriage (Interview With Dave Carder)

Note: This week’s show contains content that parents might prefer listening to alone, without children.

No one enters a marriage with the intention of having an affair, but plenty of husbands and wives naively find themselves in that situation – and likely after having said, “It won’t ever happen to me.”

Counselor Dave Carder – who has counseled hundreds of such couples — asserts in a new book that marriages can be strengthened and saved if couples simply take steps to protect their marriage. And if they look out for several warning signs.

Carder is this week’s guest on Words of Wisdom.

He is pastor of Counseling Ministries at First Evangelical Free Church of Fullerton, Calif., and the author of several books, including Torn Asunder: Recovering from an Extramarital Affair, Unlocking Your Family Patterns: Finding Freedom from a Hurtful Past and the one we discuss in this week’s show: Anatomy of an Affair: How Affairs, Attractions, and Addictions Develop, and How to Guard Your Marriage Against Them (all published by Moody).