I don’t think it’s as simple as a lost love
Alice did what a lot of emotional vampires types do, and placed absolutely all responsibility for her happiness onto him after she lost her mum and then her dad remarried. Alice made Ioan completely responsible for her in every way, financially, all her moods, her health, her happiness. But she wasn’t happy with him, on many occasions when he wasn’t living up to her fantasy idea of what he should do or say. He wasn’t allowed opinions that didn’t match hers or her ego, and she didn’t have any love or respect for his feelings. Her social media addiction and his distress about this is a prime example. She is looking back now with rose tinted glasses that she had a sexy, good looking husband, the status of a HW wife, money and someone to try to fill the large gaping emotional hole she has inside her (no pun intended). She doesn’t miss Ioan as a person, she doesn’t like him, she likes what he represented. She has forgotten all the things she tried to change about him and how little respect she had for all his ‘weaknesses’.
I sold all my jewellery some years back to pay for car repairs, it’s normal to do so when you are in desperate times and I don’t think it’s an unreasonable expectation when you are desperate.