Shell -- sorry! All that and I didn't answer your question about counseling. The CL process includes therapists to help couples get along better for the sake of the kids. It is not intended for R or MC. In the one session we had, it revealed how deeply dysfunctional our communication has been in our M. He said it was obvious we don't listen to each other because it was like a tit-for-tat tennis match. WAW was done with it the minute it was over.

I thought it revealed a lot that we should've worked on years ago, and still ought to for the sake of 7 years and 3 kids together. Oh well.