Agree, that group of friends and their track record is troubling. Just keep being the more attractive option snf hopefully MIL and other more reasonable people will help her through this too, once she realizes you are who you are keeping company with.
Wow - coincidence, they just said on the news that the US is aggressively trying to get to/talk to Bin Laden's wives....def because of who they've kept company with.
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. --Stanislaw Lem