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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
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
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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 listeners 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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Critic Reviews

"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, best-selling author of Man Enough: Undefining My Masculinity)

"Funny and poignant...a beautiful exposition on partnerships, love and unpaid labour." (Eve Rodsky, New York Times best-selling author of Fair Play)
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An essential book for any man. It contains the tools I wish I had before separating from my partner.

What I wish I knew years ago.

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So relevant in this day and age. Breaks down the communication barriers and considers how important empathy for a successful relationship. Understanding these concepts would have saved my own marriage - that I have recently ended for the VERY reasons discussed here. Have recommended it to all my women folk - insisting their husbands read....before it's too late......

Every couple should read this!!

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As a relationship book aficionado but still a deeply
flawed partner I finally was able to make some pivotal and significant changes to my daily behaviour and subsequently pulled my relationship back from the brink.
I listen to this weekly and so should you

Most important book I have ever read

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Some very helpful insights. Made me realise the small seemingly innocuous things I do every day are slowly poisoning my relationships. A fantastic read.

Excellent book to help your marriage before it’s too late

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One of the books that I could not put away until finished. Suggest reading it to all couples at the start of marriage or even before starting one

Amazingly written

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This book describes circumstances and solutions for any man concerned or confused about their marriage. I’ll be reading it again

The quiet destroyer

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This is extremely insightful and very important information to share and learn from. Thank you so much, Matthew for sharing your story in hopes to help others. I learned so much.

Brilliant

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