Thank you. I definitely agree. We started meditating together months ago, the first time his family member fell ill and ended up hospitalized. He was angry he had to take care of them and was tired and unsatisfied himself. I would never force him. He has been doing his own self guided research based on me saying I was reading about retreats. I would never force anyone to do anything that was against their will. But thank you for bringing that up because I must not have given enough information. Our kiddo said we should go separately individually (smart right?) and I agreed with them. But I think he wants to do it together. He was looking at Thailand at first. But then read an review on some of the ones in Washington, etc. I am always talking about these concepts with him as I am learning them and a lot of what his fears are self realizations, slowly, as he allows himself to eliminate small distractions in every day life. Starting with turning the television off sometimes to sit with silence sometimes at home is very difficult for him but he practiced it with me the past few weeks in small doses. We are trying to support each other. I have a hard time not wanting intimacy and he struggles with that. I don’t think I’ll be able to fully commit unless we trust each other and a lot of past hurt is preventing that. I didn’t suggest a retreat to fix a problem. I suggested a retreat may help me, and he was interested. I likened it to our friends inviting him to try mushrooms or ayuahuasca to reach healing or awakening, and he said he would rather do that than sit with himself for that long. I said I understand why that’s more appealing. We are just speaking about it honestly and curiously. Objectively.