Not sure what to do

[Gardener]

stu,

I heard from someone that they are having a mass fir my father in law tomorrow night. W hasn't told me anything, so I guess she doesn't want me there.

I say go. Sit in the back if it makes you more comfortable, but go. Your absence will be noted - and misinterpreted - by those who do not know your wife didn't tell you. Do the honorable thing.

They keep saying she'll regret it later and that I deserve better, but I guess they don't want to see me in pain.

Bingo.

I can't get out of my head that she said she has been happier without me.

"Believe none of what they say..."

but she doesn't even want to try.

"...and less than half of what they do."

Am o flogging a dead horse by trying to hold on?

Perhaps. But also being a decent, feeling man.