Q:

'For me' vs 'For myself'

[Source:] Myself is used as the object of a reflexive verb (“I hurt myself”), as an intensifier (“I myself will go”), and can be used in absolutive clause (“for my wife and myself it was a happy time”)

What are the similarities and differences between the following? This comment worsens my confusion.

1. For me it was a happy time.
  2. For myself it was a happy time.   

I am guessing that in 1, me is an object pronoun,
and in 2, myself  is an intensive pronoun, but this link states:

While English intensive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself, himself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves) use the same form as reflexive pronouns, an intensive pronoun is different from a reflexive, because the pronoun can be removed without altering the meaning of the sentence.

Yet in 2, myself CAN'T be removed? 
Obiter dictum: Here's another link on absolute phrases. 

A:

Your example in number 2 is an incorrect use of the intensive "myself".  The intensive pronoun is an emphatic, redundant pronoun.  In your example, an actual object is needed for the prepositional phrase "for [object]" , so only object-pronouns (like "me") are appropriate.  
You would use the intensive pronoun like this:

I, myself, am responsible for the company's success.  

Note that in this example, without the intensive, emphatic pronoun, the sentence remains intact "I am responsible for the company's success."  

