On the Rocks | Matthew Fray
Matthew FrayMatthew Fray, author of This is How Your Marriage Ends, featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic, and on The Tamron Hall Show and NPR, continues his exploration of love and relationships, with the occasional bourbon assist.
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Your Explanation Can Be True and Still Make Everything Worse
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A text notification from his wife lights up his phone.
She is eleven weeks pregnant.
Still early enough that they have not told many people. Still early enough that hope feels fragile. Still early enough that every s...
Most People Know What Hurts. Fewer Know Why.
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I’ve spent years talking with people about their relationships.
One thing I’ve learned is that many people can describe the pain they’re experiencing with remarkable accuracy.
They know they feel alone. They know they don’...
When Your Wife Quits Her Job to be a Stay-at-Home Parent
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Among all stay-at-home parents (in the United States), 82 percent are mothers.
In heterosexual relationships, women are roughly 3.7 times more likely to be at-home parents than their male partners, according to P...
I Thought Explaining Myself was Helpful
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I don’t think people always believe me when I say it, but I swear it’s true:
I can’t remember ever in my life setting out to hurt someone. Thinking: Oooohhh that piece of shit. I’m going to...
The Asking Threshold
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Nobody announces it. Nobody sits you down and says: “Just so you know, bringing things to you doesn’t feel worth it anymore.”
But people have an asking threshold.
In healthy relationships, the threshold stays lo...
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Marriage and relationship coach. Author of "This is How Your Marriage Ends: A Hopeful Approach to Saving Relationships." Bourbon and rye whiskey collector and enthusiast. Likes sports, film, and books. Tends to write about relationship stuff.
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