A few other tidbits to give insight into the MLCer - in addiiton to alienating me and his kids, he ended (very)badly with OW1, and her kids, who he took on as family.

He told me yesterday that his brother and sisters think he is autistic (!) - previously I was told it was all hunky dory there.

And he told me doesn't have much of a relationship with his new wife's adult children.

He claims that he has lost contact with all our former friends because they 'sided' with me. Actually the ones I keep up with are simply embarrassed by how he behaved during the height of MLC.

I don't know if other LBS have found that quite a lot of friends melt away partly because they do not understand MLC, and think you had a murky relationship for years. The ones who stay the course are gold.

But, no real relationship issues apparently!! Although I do think there was a bit of a light bulb moment there. We didn't work through this in any order - it just came out gradually.