About not contacting you first about MIL...could he have avoided you because he knew how hard you would take it?
I realize it sounds terrible to say maybe you two would grow closer during this sad time. But it could happen.
me,34 exH,34 S,16 months S:3/31/09-left for OW started DBing 10/09 d final: sometime 10/10 current: http://www.divorcebusting.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2022856&page=1 met in 2004