There are more and more Mussar and Bitachon Vaadim taking place all over the world. Reb Asher Zelig Rubinstein told me a story about a mother of 11 children who needed her husband home to help with the children. She insisted that he cannot go to the half hour Mussar Seder, since she needed him at that time. After a few weeks, she saw the difference of what a person he was from that half hour Mussar, and she changed her mind!
A friend of mine told me that the same exact story happened when Moshe Gold* couldn’t make it to a Bitachon Vaad, since he was needed at home to put the children to sleep. When his wife saw how radically different he was after one Bitachon Vaad, she insisted that he go, and she’ll take care of their 7 children!
It pays to learn Mussar Seforim. I knew Baalei Mussar [Reb Nosson Wachtfogel Zatzal and others] who would shine with Simcha when others would embarrass them in public! By working on Bitachon, a person can truly live a pain-free existence, and be Zoche to every type of good; besides the reward he gets for the “greatest of all Mitzvos”; i.e., working on Bitachon.
*Name changed