The author suggests that nothing strikes a stake through the heart of marital hopes and dreams like the incessant pursuit of happiness, with the therapeutic community often colluding with this cultural imperative. As spouses demand that their partners and their marriages make them happy, a myriad of unfortunate dynamics ensue making the typical marriage unbearable.

""Shadow Marriage-A Descent into Intimacy" offers both couples and professionals an uniquely in depth perspective upon marriage that can't be found in the pages of any other text."
-Dr. George Rogers. Author of "Terror, Bonding and Psychotherapy."

"Paul Dunion's "Shadow Marriage-A Descent into Intimacy" collects the many lost voices and broken hearts of modern marriage. When you truly dive into your own story with the tools found in this book, and flush out the teachings and the blessings, your marriage and maybe even your life could be saved."
-Jeffrey Duvall. Author of "Men, Meaning and Prayer-The Reconciliation of Heart and Soul in Modern Manhood."

""Shadow Marriage" is wonderfully insightful and fully grounded at the same time Dr. Dunion has encapsulated many years of experience into his text. You can feel the weight of each sentence as it comes off the page. This book will help anyone gain a deeper understanding of the inner workings of love and relationship."
-Cliff Barry. Founder of Shadow Work Seminars.

Temptation In The House Of The Lord is a lucid depiction of the love between an 11 year-old boy and a Roman Catholic Priest. Their meeting appears to be as much a part of parish life as it does a necessary expression of their destinies. Their relationship appropriately begins at an altar, a place where both sacrifice and worship take place. The years separating an 11 year-old boy and a 27 year-old priest seem to evaporate in the midst of the boy's longing to be understood, blessed and loved by a man and the priest's yearning to reclaim a severed part of his childhood. Both priest and boy carry a hunger that has not been fed by family or church. The boy is saturated with the rearing and influence of women. The priest is psychologically overwhelmed by church dogma and protocol. He is a young sensual man seeking warmth and contact while being imprisoned by a vow of celibacy that reduces him to a fugitive within his own heart. The sensitivity and wounds of Father Ray Billings kneads the boy's psyche, pushing and pulling it away from borrowed values and beliefs while pressing it slowly and constantly toward what is instinctual and primal within the boy's soul. deviant expressions of his sensuality which inevitably place his beloved young friend at risk. Paul Dunion's Temptation in the House of the Lord is important to the understanding of Clerical Incest and is a real page burner.--John Lee, Author of The Flying Boy