Afraid I have waited too long

[nit84]

The W and I are going to same party this weekend but separately of course.

Last weekend we were at the same party but it was much larger than this one will be.

We have many mutual friends at both places. I have not gone to the club that had the party last week as much as the other because MIL works at that one.

Last week it was easy to stay away from W because of the amount of people that attended. She didn't shy away from coming over to the table I was sitting at to sell some tickets though.

When I first arrived, it was me and MIL walking in together purely accidentally. We were alone and I said Hi she responded very awkwardly saying hi back.

At the party itself W Uncle(MIL Brother), who I went to school with, shook my hand and we had some small talk. A little later he walked up and we talked a bit again I asked how his Mom was and he told me not feeling well so she would not be coming. I told him to wish her well for me and he said he would

Mutual friends pretty much were Neutral which was great but a few came up and asked if I was Ok I told them yes and they said they hope everything works out because they know how much I love my W. They also seem to feel that MIL is at least a little of the reason W is not receptive to working things out.

Not recently but in the past it was mentioned more than once that it was thought that MIL was jealous of the M the W and I had and all we had money wise, love wise etc. you get the picture.

This bring us to this weeks function. There will 1/10th of the people at this party about 25 or 30.

I was told that W and MIL will be attending. I never asked W if she was going and she has never offered to tell me.

I go to this club at least once a week as I am in a league. I don't want people to take sides here but most seem to be closer to me. The only reason is the W has only been up to this club 2 times since the S. She has reached out to these people a few times and they have contacted her a little also.

After I moved back the W limited a couple of the them on a social media site to what they can see. Not sure why this occurred and neither are they.

With this party being smaller and everybody knows that we are S (Some know I am living back home others don't), what should I do?

This party is much quieter than last weeks and I just want to try to make it easier on our friends more than easier on me or the W.

Last week party was weird, felt like I was being watched to see what I would do. This weeks party will be even weirder I think because of the close setting.

I will try to "act if" we are just friends at the same place or should I be like week and have no spoken words with W at all. I could handle talking but I am not sure she could based on how she acted last week.