Spirit - the hostility does seem eventually to die down. The craziness further down the line is different, and less angry and more bewildered. Hard to explain.

In the early stages they are very much fighting us and what we stand for. Later on their grasp of reality generally seems to weaken. An old friend of mine heard from my xh recently after a couple of years silence and he spent quite a lot of time talking about a pair of trousers he had bought. She said she had to pinch herself to check she wasn't dreaming, it was so unreal.