This is How Your Marriage Ends (Paperback)

A Hopeful Approach to Saving Relationships

Matthew Fray

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

'The man who coaches husbands on how to avoid divorce' The New York Times

'One husband's confession you might be tempted to hand to your other half next time he does something infuriating' Daily Mail

'Could genuinely help save a few rocky marriages' Literary Review

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. As he tried to piece together how his ex-wife went from adoring to angry he realised that even though he was a decent guy, he was kind of a bad husband.

From the raw, uncomfortable and darkly humorous stories he shared about the lessons he's learned from his failed marriage comes this strangely hopeful guide to saving relationships. 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.

This is a must-read for people in any stage of a relationship, whether it's near the beginning or nearing the end.

Good people can be bad partners - here's how to ensure that isn't you.

Publication date: 31/03/2022

£16.99

ISBN: 9781788168090

Imprint: Souvenir Press

Subject: Health & Wellbeing

This is How Your Marriage Ends (Ebook)

A Hopeful Approach to Saving Relationships

Matthew Fray

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

'The man who coaches husbands on how to avoid divorce' The New York Times

'One husband's confession you might be tempted to hand to your other half next time he does something infuriating' Daily Mail

'Could genuinely help save a few rocky marriages' Literary Review

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. As he tried to piece together how his ex-wife went from adoring to angry he realised that even though he was a decent guy, he was kind of a bad husband.

From the raw, uncomfortable and darkly humorous stories he shared about the lessons he's learned from his failed marriage comes this strangely hopeful guide to saving relationships. 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.

This is a must-read for people in any stage of a relationship, whether it's near the beginning or nearing the end.

Good people can be bad partners - here's how to ensure that isn't you.

Publication date: 31/03/2022

£9.99

ISBN: 9781782838548

ISBN 10 / ASIN: B098YCXC1V

Imprint: Souvenir Press

Subject: Health & Wellbeing

This is How Your Marriage Ends (Audiobook)

A Hopeful Approach to Saving Relationships

Matthew Fray

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

'The man who coaches husbands on how to avoid divorce' The New York Times

'One husband's confession you might be tempted to hand to your other half next time he does something infuriating' Daily Mail

'Could genuinely help save a few rocky marriages' Literary Review

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. As he tried to piece together how his ex-wife went from adoring to angry he realised that even though he was a decent guy, he was kind of a bad husband.

From the raw, uncomfortable and darkly humorous stories he shared about the lessons he's learned from his failed marriage comes this strangely hopeful guide to saving relationships. 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.

This is a must-read for people in any stage of a relationship, whether it's near the beginning or nearing the end.

Good people can be bad partners – here's how to ensure that isn't you.

Publication date: 31/03/2022

£21.99

ISBN: 9781800810501

ISBN 10 / ASIN: B09W33DJF8

Imprint: Souvenir Press

Subject: Health & Wellbeing

Read by: Rob Shapiro

This is How Your Marriage Ends (Paperback)

A Hopeful Approach to Saving Relationships

Matthew Fray

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

'The man who coaches husbands on how to avoid divorce' The New York Times

'One husband's confession you might be tempted to hand to your other half next time he does something infuriating' Daily Mail

'Could genuinely help save a few rocky marriages' Literary Review

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. As he tried to piece together how his ex-wife went from adoring to angry he realised that even though he was a decent guy, he was kind of a bad husband.

From the raw, uncomfortable and darkly humorous stories he shared about the lessons he's learned from his failed marriage comes this strangely hopeful guide to saving relationships. 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.

This is a must-read for people in any stage of a relationship, whether it's near the beginning or nearing the end.

Good people can be bad partners - here's how to ensure that isn't you.

Publication date: 05/01/2023

£10.99

ISBN: 9781788168106

Imprint: Souvenir Press

Subject: Health & Wellbeing

Reviews for This is How Your Marriage Ends

'Fray's insight is to realise that the substance of the dispute isn't that important - it was his reaction to his ex-wife's reaction to the dirty dishes that, over time, hollowed out their marriage ... Makes me want to try harder in future'

 The Times

'One husband's confession you might be tempted to hand to your other half next time he does something infuriating'

 Daily Mail

'Fray's disarming personality and the sharing of his own story make people feel like they're not being judged ... His stark message: Don't end up like me'

 The New York Times

'The nuggets of good sense in this book could genuinely help save a few rocky marriages'

 Literary Review

'A fascinating book ... definitely worth a read'

 Woman's Own

'Hard-hitting'

 Telegraph

'Offers a frank and refreshingly modern view, one that never makes dated, flippant assumptions about love languages or Venus and Mars ... [Has] resonance for anyone who's ever had a broken heart - or labored to keep one from cracking'

Salon.com 

'Shares how the small things have big repercussions'

 Grazia

'Funny and poignant ... a beautiful exposition on partnerships, love, and unpaid labor'

Eve Rodsky, New York Times bestselling author of Fair Play 

'Hugely resonant'

 Metro

'It's hard to quibble with Fray's central message - that men could learn to "suck less" at marriage by becoming more attentive to their partners' feelings'

 Financial Times

'Transformational'

Zoe Blaskey, The Motherkind podcast 

'An important book! Especially for men ... He shines two lights, a black light over why marriages fail but also sunlight by injecting hope and encouraging couples to take ownership'

John Kim, bestselling author of Single On Purpose 

'Reveals why we (men and women) get it wrong so often and what we can do to fix it ... Entertaining, honest, and truly practical'

Justin Baldoni, bestselling author of Man Enough: Undefining My Masculinity 

'Sobering and inspiring, heartbreaking and hilarious ... gets to the root of questions that can make or break a life partnership. Read it, heed it, act on it - for yourself and for the one you love'

Warren Berger, bestselling author of A More Beautiful Question 

'Puts words to the human experience in a way that allows us to feel not only witnessed, but also to have hope rise from our all-too-common relational tragedies'

Mark Groves, Human Connection Specialist and Founder of Create the Love 

Matthew Fray

Matthew Fray

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.