You sound well. I have thought about this LBS/MLC parallel. There are a ton of similarities but I think the main difference is that we tend to maintain a commitment to our spouses and family while going through major personal growth and discovery while the MLCers tend to run from all that was stable and "boring" in their lives. We discover that it IS possible to maintain both a healthy "life" AND healthy marriage and that actually, they are one in the same. GAL teaches us that at a time when all we really want to do is pine for our WAS, we need to resist that urge and discover that which makes us happy beyond the marriage and our WAS. It is our ability to overcome the negative emotions, ours AND WAS's, rise up in the face of what, for many of us is the most painful experience of our lives, and BECOME more that we were before that sets us apart. To me, the LBS transformation into someone with a vibrant spirit and passion for life is actually quite different from the MLC transformation into someone who is confused, angry, sad and intent on changing for change's sake and be damned with whoever it hurts in the process. We try to do it in context, they try to remove all context so they can do it without guilt, fear or consequences. The means may look the same, but the end goals are pretty different if you ask me.
