Yeah, I don't know what to tell you. I'm a bit jaded. My XW always seemed to have reasonable explanations for the intensity of her "friendship" with the OM.
You know how you always hear the metaphor of the frog that calmly floats in the warm water until the water begins boiling and the frog dies because it never noticed the rising temperature? I was the frog. I kept accepting the little things as being okay until they weren't, and then it was too late.