Did somebody say Where's Wed?
Oh, I can most definitely add to this. I am an expert now, ya know. I went through living with an MLCer for a long time, being separated from him and finally divorced from him. He's been both a low-energy and high-energy MLCer. He's been a Clinger, and a Vanisher, and I guess some stuff in between. So here is what I have been able to determine about how MLC got going:
Somehow, this [insert profanity here] button in my H's [insert profanity here] brain got pushed
and my H lost his mind. He immediately went overboard with his cell phone usage,
turned into a 14-year-old girl on certain social media sites,
got to feeling super-confident and invincible with all of his new-found popularity
and decided that being married to a loser like me was quite the embarrassment.
So what script did I follow to weather the craziness? At the beginning, I was too emotional to say much that made any sense.
Then I resolved to try living a heathier life and eating better, for me.
I decided NO CONTACT was the way to go.
NO CONTACT and NO CYBERSTALKING either. Account deletion, hooray!!
I gently put his things aside and after a time, when I could be calm and composed about it all, requested that he remove them.
It's only now I've begun to realize how much of dealing with MLC is simply... waiting.
So that's it. That's been my experience. For you male LBS out there, I suspect that your interactions may have been different.
Patience is the weapon that forces deception to reveal itself.