Is this the most backhanded book dedication a man has ever given to a wife?

Taken from An Introduction to Algebraic Topology By Joseph Rotman:

“To my wife Marganit and my children Ella Rose and Daniel Adam without whom this book would have been completed two years earlier.”

We wonder what Mrs Rotman thought about this?

Hopefully she told him to shove his Algebraic Topology up his arse.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/4zpqce/to_my_wife_and_my_children/