Unfortunately, when I was having a particularly bad week and was rather crabby, my husband thought I was employing some of the suggested techniques in this book. He had only read the title and nothing further, so he thought the book was teaching me to be a bitch and he'd love me more. He told me he didn't like what I was doing and should stop. I explained to him that the title is deceiving and it teaches women how to be more assertive in a relationship and not make a man feel like he's in shackles, NOT about being a bitch (which he just has to accept once a month whether he likes it or not).