Great post. Makes sense to me. I might disagree with this in many cases though:
"I think the answer lies in WHY they need an OP to exit a M in the first place. Ideally, you should not. The type of person the OP is in their life...we notice that they "affair down" mostly."
Well, not disagree really. But I think most cases they are affairing with someone operating at their own level. This is definitely usually a few steps below the LBS. So, they affair down from there, but affair at a par with respect to themselves, if that makes sense. They simply really are far behind the LBS in a lot of ways. Maybe that is one reason they feel forced to run in the first place.
