How to Fail a Marriage - Paperback

by Corey M. Larue Lpc (Author)

Your marriage isn't dying from one big explosion. It's bleeding out from a thousand daily cuts.

You've read the advice columns. You've tried "communicating better." You've white-knuckled your way through another tense dinner, another silent car ride, another night sleeping on opposite edges of the same bed. Maybe you're managing a blended family that feels more like a war zone than a home. Maybe you're parenting neurodivergent children while your partnership dissolves under the weight of logistics, grief, and exhaustion. You don't need another pastel-covered book telling you to "love harder." You need someone to show you exactly what's going wrong, and why.

In How to Fail a Marriage, dual-licensed clinician Corey Matthew LaRue flips the entire relationship playbook on its head. Through a sharp, satirical "Manual for Failure," he maps the precise mechanical blueprints of relational collapse: the weaponized silence, the eroded boundaries, the slow starvation of trust. Then he pairs each blueprint with rigorous, evidence-based alternatives drawn from family systems theory and over a decade of clinical practice. The result is a field manual that treats your marriage like what it actually is: a high-stakes team sport where daily choices compound into either connection or catastrophe.

Inside these pages, you will discover:

- How couples unknowingly engineer divorce through stonewalling, scorekeeping, and the erosion of autonomy

- Operational frameworks for rebuilding trust, communication, and interdependence under real-world structural loads

- Reflection tools and clinical assessments designed to interrupt destructive cycles before they become irreversible

This is not gentle advice. This is the blueprint. Learn how to fail a marriage so you never have to.