Yeah, that "stranger" thing--pretty universal. also pretty creepy; sometimes it makes you wonder what on earth you didn't see for the past (fill in the blank) number of years you were together. can also make you feel like you can't trust your own judgment, which can be a little scary too.
I seriously think they should consider a DSM-IV category for midlife crisis (or whatever the h*ll this stuff is) because it's such a syndrome, so many predictable pathologies. With a diagnosis code, maybe it might be viewed as the devastating process that it is--and not the subject of jokes. And maybe even some treatment, if a medical model is used. Personally, I'd vote for electroconvulsive therapy.
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M60 H52 D20 M14 yrs OW-old gf from 1986 bomb-5/18/08 H filed for D-9/10/08 D final 4/24/09 xH remarried (not OW) 2012