Yes, it is a great experience. I know a lot of people are frightened to go. I loved it. It was a time and place where I really felt safe. Our arguments had gotten so emotional. But they taught us how to approach each other, laid ground rules for communicating that made the issues come out without the hostility and the blaming. And then they taught us how to talk about what we wrote. Everything was very controlled. But all discussion took place just between the two of us, no counselor sitting in giving opinions. We learned to do it for ourselves.
Sometimes people need to investigate it a little to get comfortable with the idea of going away for a weekend to do something like this together. MC is a good start. Some MC's are very effective and get you where you want to go. Sometimes the more intense program is more effective. But simply making the effort to go to someone for help is a big step, and one to be applauded.
