Would you describe your marriage as joyful, wonderful, and loving? Is it the marriage you have always dreamed of having? Pathways to Intimacy: Conversations for Closeness - Creating the Marriage you have Alaways Dreamed of is a practical book written to help couples discover a healthier, happier, and stronger relationship. Pathways to Intimacy is a book that both men and women can relate to. With just over 100 pages, this book is divided into seven short, yet incredibly useful chapters. Each chapter contains questions that the reader answers individually. Once both partners have answered the questions individually, they come together and have a conversation about their responses - a conversation that will being them closer together as a couple and that will increase intimacy in the relationship. In Pathways to Intimacy, Dr. Howard will help you create a truly great marriage by helping you establish and maintain a newfound closeness; a closeness built upon bonds of emotional intimacy - bonds that will give you the safety and security necessary to reach out to one another and to ask for what you need and desire from your partner. It is a book that will help you create a marriage defined by deep and lasting love. Pathways to Intimacy examines areas that are crucial to success in the couple relationship - areas that couples unfortunately struggle the most with. These include: family roles and responsibilities, finances, extended family relationships, healthy sexuality and intimacy, infidelity, parenting, and grief and loss. Pathways to Intimacy is a book written for all couples - regardless of where they are in their current relationship. It is a book that is extremely practical, yet simply written. Don't miss the opportunity to have the marriage you have always dreamed of.
About the Author: Dr. Michael Howard is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Clinical Addictions Specialist, Marriage and Family Therapist and Mental Health Counselor. He is an experienced individual, couple, family, and group therapist. His counseling specialties include couples therapy, infidelity, sexual addiction, and trauma recovery. Dr Howard is currently the Executive Director and founder of Healing Solutions Counseling Center in Charlotte, NC. Dr. Howard holds masters degrees in professional counseling, addiction psychology, marriage and family therapy, and discipleship ministries. He also holds a Doctor of Education (EdD) degree in counseling psychology. He is a Board Certified Professional Christian Counselor and a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist and Supervisor. Dr. Howard is an adjunct faculty member in the graduate marriage and family therapy program at Northcentral University in Presscott Valley, Arizona where he teaches courses in marriage and family therapy, sexual addiction and infidelity, and treatment of military families. Dr. Howard has served in the United States Navy as both a nuclear-trained submarine electrician (Chief Petty Officer) for 18 years and as a Chaplain for 10 years. He has served in a Marine combat battalion, at Navy Boot camp, on five different submarines and most recently as Command Chaplain of a Naval warship. In addition to being a prominent relationship and addiction therapist, Dr. Howard has authored numerous articles for scholarly journals and has presented at National conferences and to general audiences nationwide on the topics of ethics, sexual addiction, infidelity, and building great relationships. Dr. Howard has been married for more than 25 years to the love of his life, Lonna. They have four children (three girls and a boy), and two dogs. He enjoys jogging, working out, camping, biking, and reading.