tjcran,

I feel your pain. My in-laws and my wife's side of the family have only heard my wife's rendition of our marital issues (I'm Satan and I don't like my wife's special friend). I'll probably never tell any of them anything about what happened and why; I think it'd fall of deft ears.

I'm guessing that my wife will dig a deeper hole and the truth will slowly percolate to the surface.