We went on a Marriage Encounter Weekend about 15 or 20 years ago. GAK! It was awful! We are just not into the self navel-gazing required at those things. A weekend spent away from the family taking long walks in the woods, or even kayaking on a lake would be much more enjoyable and useful to a healthy marriage than being 'encouraged' to gaze into each other's eyes and write how you feel. I don't mind doing those things, I just don't like the idea of doing it 'on demand'.
So there's my rant. But we haven't done too badly without all that, since we've been married over 30 years!
Hopefully it will be interesting. I am sure there is stuff we have not really talked about much that could be good. I can see how something similar might be nothing but a pain in the tail after 10 or 15 years of happy marriage.
Heh...that's about how my parents felt. Not to mention that as I recall, people sat in a circle and were supposed to talk TO one another, but in FRONT of everyone else. Ugh!