BEAUTIFUL PERSPECTIVE (IMO): Maybe that is part of why the WAS walks away too. They want to change, cultivate, perhaps reinvent themselves. How can they do that in our presence when we "know" who they really are? So, this space that has been put between us can serve to make room for us to grow as we want to for ourselves and then perhaps rediscover each other in the future (or as we go along in the process of separating, divorcing or reconciling).