Hi native, Like you already know - friends & family will take sides. You just have to hope that the WAS takes everything with a grain of salt (as we have learned here). Whether or not you like the beach issue, I would drop it. Is it really that important? Remember, you cannot control what she does. Can you do a 180 on this issue?
Question - if you would have been happy or agreeable to the beach issue & then brought your D into the issue the way you did - would your W have reacted differently? It seems she was in reaction mode - not action mode.
Just some food for thought .....
Me39, XH45 Kids 3 dogs, 2 cats Divorced 6/4/09 Tricky thing is not how you live, but how you live with yourself. (POTC)