How long does the average MLC AFFAIR last
Don't now the average lenght. OW1, to my knowledge (she may had enter the scene before) lasted 18 months. They never lived together.
OW2 is till lasting. There has been 42 months. They live together.
Is it an affair-down
Of course. OW1 did not mind to have a man that left his wife and home; OW2 does not mind to live, and provide her lawyer friend, with a man has eft is wife and home and is fighting his wife in court. None of the two OW can have a very sound personality.
What Prolongs the affair, can we help it to break up?
No idea if we can help to break it. During OW1 I did all the "donts" it lasted less than OW2. With OW2 husband is a vanisher, I'm NC. It is lasting long and they live together. Unlike with OW1 I never talked about his R with OW2 and never asked him anything, except, last March, if she knew he was still marrried. He said yes. That was all.
My detachent and lack of contact with husband did not shortened the affair. Quite the contrary.
Think they are both in a narcissist trip. Husband is much more of a selfish narcissist than during OW1 and OW2 is the queen of vain (even more than the vain OW1) and narcissism.
How does the affair break-down and what are the signs?
I don't know. I was already back home when husband and OW1 broke down. Looking back, I can say that, on what I now where the final months, we was much nicer with me, even buying (and mailing me) small gifts.
Is there anything unusual about the affair?
Husband has a puclic life, a certain fame and level of success. That is very aluring and alows for a display window of husband and OW2 narcissism. I think that helps to prolong the affair. OW2 looks, physicaly, a lot like me. Almost a copy.
How does OW affair affect the MLCer
Would say OW2 made him more selfish and vain.
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. (Marilyn Monroe)