Considering you posted this at midnight, I'd say you're off to a pretty good start!
My friends thought I was ridiculous in doing this, but when my H told me that his biggest complaint was me picking fights with him during his wind-down-before-bed time...I had to use the broken phone concept. Mine couldn't work after 8pm, and truthfully, it still rarely does make calls after 8pm to H!
Hell, it is the one and only change he noticed, so it must have worked somehow!
GO YOU!!!!
"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."
--Agnes Repplier, writer and historian
