Albac, I have friends tell me similar stories. One of our friends had a friend that left her husband trying find herself, a number of things similar to my W, and took 9 years to wake to what she had. Her husband is happy and remarried and she is sad and alone... I think this happens more often than people realize.
My W, however, has cut these friends out of the picture for her new single friends. Anyone that doesn't agree with her gets shut out, even her own family is getting shut out.