Thanks, Sara. I know there was a risk in "opening the can."
And I know that I'm gonna hear it from my wife, because I got an email from FIL that was sent to both my wife and me. The email was a gentle suggestion that we pursue counseling for the children to help them cope with the impending change.
While I agree that counseling for them will be beneficial, his timing was not good. I expect that as soon as my wife reads this, she is going to grill be about what I talked to them about when I was there. I am not worried; I can handle it. I intend to reply that the asked how the kids were doing, and I told them.
BTW, in the course of the discussion with the in-laws last weekend, SMIL suggested that a solution for the marriage may be found in counseling for the family. I agreed, and this email, I believe, was their follow-up to our discussion.
