duxdeluxe:
You seem to be here to defend Sterling and MDI.
You are posting at another thread largely defending Justin Sterling and his privately owned for-profit company Sterling Institute for Relationship.
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forum.culteducation.com]
Sterling has a notorious history of bad press and complaints.
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www.culteducation.com]
You say, "Men tend not to respond well to ultimatums. telling your husband you will leave him if he doesn't quit MDI or do anything for that matter, usually just entrenches him and he stops listening. Besides, I just don't get why you would feel threatened by having your husband have a place where he honestly address whatever challenges he is facing --- even if they are related to his marriage. If you are up for it and I would welcome a chance to have a dialoouge."
First of all, it appears that you are willing to blame the wife, but not MDI.
And you describe MDI as "a place where he honestly address[es] whatever challenges he is facing" including "his marriage."
But MDI is not qualified as a professional third party to address this man's personal problems and/or marriage. MDI is not professional counseling, as correctly provided by a licensed marriage and family therapist, clinical psychologist, etc.
And it is presumptuous of you to offer yourself in any "dialogue" regarding this couple's problems. As a MDI member you are biased.
MDI, based upon your responses here, may fall under some of the four warning signs of a potentially dangerous mass marathon training or LGAT program.
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www.culteducation.com]
1. Leaders had rigid, unbending beliefs about what participants should experience and believe, how they should behave in the group. and when they should change.
2. Leaders had no sense of differential diagnosis and assessment skills, valued cathartic emotional breakthroughs as the ultimate therapeutic experience, and sadistically pressed to create or force a breakthrough in every participant.
3. Leaders had an evangelical system of belief that was the one single pathway to salvation.
4. Leaders were true believers and sealed their doctrine off from discomforting data or disquieting results and tended to discount a poor result by, "blaming the victim."