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This is How Your Marriage Ends

A Hopeful Approach to Saving Relationships
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This is How Your Marriage Ends by Matthew Fray offers an insightful exploration into the dynamics of failing relationships, using the author's personal experiences to highlight common mistakes and misunderstandings. Through relatable anecdotes and practical advice, Fray aims to uncover the small, often overlooked moments that can significantly impact a marriage, providing an opportunity for reflection and growth in family and marital relationships.
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You might enjoy this book if you're interested in understanding the complexities of relationships and want practical insights into preventing common pitfalls that can jeopardise a marriage. The author offers a candid perspective on communication and empathy, providing thoughtful guidance for maintaining a healthy partnership.

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A thoughtful, down-to-earth, contemporary guide to help partners identify and address relationship-killing behaviour patterns in their own lives.

A thoughtful, down-to-earth, contemporary guide to help partners identify and address relationship-killing behaviour patterns in their own lives

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This Is How Your Marriage Ends is the book we have been waiting for - an entertaining, honest, and truly practical guide for saving our relationships' - Justin Baldoni, bestselling author of Man Enough: Undefining My Masculinity

'Funny and poignant ... a beautiful exposition on partnerships, love, and unpaid labour' - Eve Rodsky, New York Times bestselling author of Fair Play

Good people can be bad partners.

One night during his divorce, after one too many vodkas and a phone-in therapist's advice to 'journal his feelings,' Matthew Fray started a blog. On it, he tried to piece together how his ex-wife went from the college freshman who adored him to the angry woman who thought he was an asshole. It turns out that even though he was a decent guy, he was kind of a shitty husband.

As he shared raw, uncomfortable and darkly humorous stories about the lessons he'd learned from his failed marriage, Matthew started to gain a following. Then he wrote a post titled 'She Divorced Me Because I left the Dishes by the Sink' - it went viral and was read over four million times.

This is How Your Marriage Ends offers immediately actionable advice to help readers identify toxic behaviour patterns in their own lives and break them out of the cycles of dysfunction that ruin relationships. Good people can be bad partners - this book is how you change that.

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This is How Your Marriage Ends by Matthew Fray has been praised for its candid exploration of relationship dynamics, particularly from a male perspective. Reviewers describe it as an honest, entertaining, and practical guide that offers insights into why couples often falter and what steps can be taken to improve marriages. Highlighted for its humour and sincerity, the book is seen as both eye-opening and hopeful, encouraging individuals to take ownership in their relationships.

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ISBN: 9781788168090

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 March 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Souvenir Press Ltd

Edition: Main

Illustration: No illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 380g

Pages: 304

About the Author

Matthew Fray is a relationship coach and writer who leans on the lessons of his failed marriage and divorce to help others avoid making the same mistakes he did. He got divorced because he left dishes by the sink. Fray writes about that and more on his blog Must Be This Tall To Ride.

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