If you go to the very last page of the Resources that Smurf created, we were able to recreate some of the links in a posting of July 28, 2015.
Unfortunately, many of the old threads are no longer available. Each poster was given the opportunity to copy and save their postings and come back and repost them or give us permission to repost them for readers. If a poster didn't return to repost their thread or gave us permission to do so, then they weren't made available to the posters once again.
However, the stages that you are referring to are: denial, anger, replay, depression, withdrawal and acceptance. During the MLC, the main ingredient is depression. They can bounce back and forth between replay, depression, withdrawal slowly enter into acceptance. There is actually no time limit on any of the stages because no two people are alike. The depression that is mentioned as a stage is a very deep, dark depression and one where they tend to actually withdraw even more so. Once acceptance occurs, they either will attempt to reconnect w/the children, family, pets, friends, etc. and the LBS is the last one for reconnection. It's the exact opposite of entering MLC. There is one final stage that I call settling into their own skin and that is when they actually reconnect and want to reconcile. When they return home, it takes a while for them to feel comfortable in their own skin. There is a thread on the reconnection if you are interested in reading it. Please feel free to ask questions about the stages, but remember, they are only a guideline and they are not linear! It's best to keep our focus on us and our families and allow the MLCers time to heal on their on time frame.
Here's the link to MLC for Dummies and it was listed in the Resources Thread that was created by Smurf:
