In ending the marriage, the spouses create new identities as individuals who must be created to separate the person from the couple. (divorcesource.com)
Partners may describe the change to, loss or gaining of new identities in these relationships, their perception of how this occurred, and their feelings towards this. (interpersona.psychopen.eu)
For many of us it is as though we have discovered a whole new identity. (religion-online.org)