Darek Laviolette is a highly decorated, retired Navy SEAL with twenty-four years of service and the author of A S.E.A.L. to Heal Your Marriage. Darek's passion for healing marriages stems from personal experience and childhood influences. Darek's exposure to self-help as a child forced him to understand what happened to his family, and after his own marriage collapsed, he spent the better part of a decade learning what happened and how to use his own experiences for the greater good-keeping other families intact.