LITTLE THINGS

Divorced for leaving dirty glasses by the sink. No, really. A fascinating book is out this week by a man whose wife left him just after his 34th birthday for not doing the washing up.

Author Matthew Fray admits the endless low-level neglect and taking for granted drove her away. He reckons he was a terrible husband. And he’s convinced he’s not alone.

It wasn’t just the dishes, it was the wet towels on the bathroom floor, the clothes draped over the bed when the wardrobe was a foot away. We all know these things. The little things.

When his wife left, Matthew was horrified at the ‘shallowness’ of her reasoning but now, 12 years on, says she was right. ‘My wife wasn’t an insufferable nag,’ he says. ‘It was about the things I did and said to her.’ Matthew is a brave man to speak out. And his book, This Is How Your Marriage

Ends, is definitely worth a read. Especially if you leave a copy by the sink – next to the dirty glasses…