Yes, this whole thing seems to go in roughly one-month cyles, but there are sub-cycles, super-cycles, and god knows how many other kinds of cycles. I should open a shop.
It's still unnerving. My W has called it off with the OM a number of times, and every time things go into a "down" cycle, he seems to reappear in the picture.
She admits that it's tough to "work on things" when this is an issue, so for now she's not filing. But it seems to be hanging on a thread.
That's why I'm so interested in how to get past the hurt. Is this something that I can help with? She's said that she "believes" that all the changes I've made are real. But that doesn't change her certainty that "she can't come back."