This Is How Your Marriage Ends: A Hopeful Approach To Saving Relationships,New

A thoughtful, downtoearth, contemporary guide to help partners identify and address relationshipkilling behavior patterns in their own lives.Good people can be bad at relationships.One night during his divorce, after one too many vodkas and a call with a phoneintherapist who told him to journal his feelings, Matthew Fray started a blog. He needed to figure out how his exwife went from the eighteenyearold college freshman who adored him to the angry woman who thought he was an asshole and left him. As he pieced together the story of his marriage and its end, Matthew began to realize a hard truth: even though he was a decent guy, he was a bad husband.As he shared raw, uncomfortable, and darkly humorous firstperson stories about the lessons hed learned from his failed marriage, a peculiar thing happened. Matthew started to gain a following. In January 2016 a post he wroteShe Divorced Me Because I left the Dishes by the Sinkwent viral and was read over four million times.Filtered through the lens of his own surprising, lifechanging experience and his years counseling couples, This Is How Your Marriage Ends exposes the root problem of so many relationships that go wrong. We simply havent been taught any of the necessary skills, Matthew explains. In fact, it is sometimes the assumption that we are acting on good intentions that causes us to alienate our partners and foment mistrust.With the humorous, entertaining, and counterintuitive approach of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, and the practical insights of The 5 Love Languages, This is How Your Marriage Ends helps readers identify relationshipkilling behavior patterns in their own lives, and offers solutions to break free from the cycles of dysfunction and destruction. It is mustread for every partner no matter what stagebeginning, middle, or even endof your relationship.