LH, I believe you said you had an EA yourself and that it was "intoxicating" while going on. That definitely lines up with research about brain scans showing the euphoria of being in love, or as your ex-wife would say, feeling the butterflies.
It was intoxicating and I went through serious with drawls when I ended it. Luckily I still had my logic and reason sensors still functioning. Most MLC middle age people do not and see it as the only escape from the horrible lives (eyeroll) they have.
I can tell you Doug in the past month my exw has had three major bouts of things she had to handle alone because she is single and none of them were fun. Is the grass greener? Maybe and maybe not.
