From my reading, women are just as likely to resist counselling as are men. Off the top of my head, I think resistance breaks down into two categories. Those spouses who don't want to be told what to do by others and those spouses who don't want strangers knowing their "business".
Add to that someone who may have tried counseling once and just happened upon a useless one (I only went once but the guy barely let me speak and did not even react to the issues I managed to tell him. Instead he went on and on about his own life. Ok granted it was a freebie at college but how was I to know that he was a fluke?) So as a smart, well read, open-minded person I later felt that it was more useless to go. HUGE MISTAKE which has led me to become a vocal proponent of counseling to friends, family and whomever is unlucky enough to sit next to me on the plane and strike up a conversation with me!! And I stress that if the first one doesn't feel right try another and another because there are some GREAT ones out there.
I just add this because I think the reason people do not go needs to be addressed to convince them to go.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ~Albert Camus
