Oh, about my sources. This is really an alternate form of snooping, so I need to not use it for the sake of DB'ing. But I have a contact for insider knowledge about what goes on with my wife and in-laws.
I have two of the sweetest and most adorable nieces in the whole world. My brother has a DD14 and my W's Sister has a DD15. They've become pretty good friends during the various family get-togethers over the many years, and apparently they correspond with each other regularly even though they live in separate states. They have set up MySpace accounts and have created a grapevine between our two families. And they are more knowledgeable about what's been going on and what people have been saying than I could even have imagined. I didn't know anything about this until my brother's W clued me in to this little operation going on right under our noses.
As a result, I have learned a number of facts that have filled in a lot of the gaps in this puzzle. This is how, for example, how I know that the MIL has been running her mouth off to all the in-laws for months about how "terrible" I have been treating my W and that W simply must divorce me.
But now I think I know more than enough -- it now worries me quite a bit that since before the bomb was dropped on me the earth has been scorched and salted by my in-laws. I don't know what I could have ever done to deserve such treatment by my MIL and the MIL's sister (W's aunt), until very recent I have been nothing but kind and courteous to them.
