Riding with people driving!!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I highly recommend you get and read this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Cycling-Bi...pd_sim_b_img_3
If you and your husband read the sections on staying safe in traffic and avoiding dangerous situations, I'm sure you will both feel more empowered and safer when cycling through these often intimidating and scary situations.
There are strategies that really do help keep you safe. This book changed so much about how i ride in traffic.
Note: you can get used copies on this Amazon page for as little as $6.

[F8th637]

+1 to Lisa's book recommendation!

Hold your ground but if you can find a safer route, please do so, even if it is a little longer. I changed the way we get to the trail from one that passes two exits from the interstate and a bunch of shopping centers to one shopping center and a nasty uphill and a brief encounter on a 2-lane road even though it added miles. It was safer and that's more paramount than anything.