Carrie's Reviews > The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships

I don’t care for self-help books and this one was no different. The advice seems obvious and condescending. My biggest issue with the book is the underlying assumption that the person feeling anger is just dealing with themselves wrong; it does not adequately take into account the possibility that the anger is a proportional response to someone making entirely inappropriate and unreasonable demands. My abusive ex-husband gave this to me to read so I would be more accommodating and pleasant regardless of how he treated me. I’ve honestly almost never been angry since we divorced and I never see him. The problem was his behaviour, not my emotions and this book could not comprehend that scenario.