"Patient Griselda" appears in one of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

To "test" his wife's faithfulness, Walter pressures Griselda to give up one, then both of her children to demonstrate that she really meant "and obey" in her wedding vows. He goes on to have the children killed (actually, he only hides them - remember, it's only a test).

Then he pretends to have their marriage dissolved and drives Griselda to her father's house, denying her pleas for a shift to cover her nakedness.

As a bonus question to the test, he sends for Griselda and demands that she help prepare his "new bride" for his wedding. She does, sorrowfully declaring her never-ending love for Walter even as she dresses her replacement.

Finally Walter determines that Griselda is both patient and faithful and he reveals that the "new bride" is actually their daughter (the son has also returned by this time) and that they really have been married this whole time and that he was just checking.

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Well. Mine is pretty obvious. It is sort of how I felt when the all-too-obvious couldn't be denied anymore. WhoMe....I never thought this could happen to me. I felt like I didn't know who H was or who I was anymore. Could just as easily have been WhyMe.

Low (Earth) orbit is sometimes described as being 'halfway to anywhere'. The reason is that in Low Earth orbit, your overall energy is about half as negative as it is sitting on the surface. Add the same energy again, and you reach escape velocity.

My husband is a high school football coach. I have used this name even before the A and it just seemed appropriate to use on this board. Even before A, I often thought he put his job before me. I try to stay involved with the school and have learned to enjoy football so that I can spend more time with him. He seems to appreciate this. However, football is his life from August until December. We live in Texas where even the preachers talk about football from the pulpit.

What can I say

its was my name on our first postings family newsletter - ok I was a new wife 18ys old & I volunteered, yeah yeah I know NOW - and besides they wouldn't let me use "I was a stupid ************ " ..lol <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

When I created my name, it was just post D-day and I was soooo frightened at the fact I felt no emotion at all upon discovery of the A. I mean, I was "flat". I wanted to capture a word for that feeling; hence, Mellow. However, looking back, I should've called myself "Numb". Thankfully, I suppose, I've begun to feel <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Aloha RIF,

Yep, H is down in Lousiana way out there pickin' up the pieces (or at least lending a hand). <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

You gonna do a post to let the rest know you checked in? I am sure others will want to hear from you again.

All settled back at home?!!?!?

L.

When I chose my original name, WWWondering, I was going through withdrawal, and was looking for any way to cope...I didn't think for more than a second when choosing..."Wayward Wife Wondering"...I was desperately "wondering" if I could ever feel for my husband again...I am happy to report a resounding "YES, more than words can express" to that query...

Later, my husband decided that he wanted to post, and he didn't feel like registering, so he posted under my name...that's how we became The_Wonderings...as in Mr. & Mrs....Coincidently, one of our favorite movies/soundtracks is "That Thing You Do"...the band in that movie? The Wonders...I suppose the name also refers to the attitude that we both share about always being able to learn something from somebody else...we know that we will NEVER know it all, so our curiosity will keep us in a perpetual state of WONDERING...EXCEPT when it comes to being sure of one another...

Mrs. Wondering

When I came to MB I was too shellshocked to think of anything more creative! Still pretty shellshocked come to think of it.

Wayward
Husband

now

Betrayed
Spouse

Griselda, I just have to say this. Wow. That was a lot of thought given to a name!

Me, well I just felt like I needed a new name to go with what feels like a new life, so I even used my new email address to rejoin MB! This "new me" has put the past in the past and I'm now my own alter ego! And no, I didn't misspell anything. I meant for alter to be spelled "altar", because that's where I feel my life has been laid. On an altar.

Qfwfq is a character in the late Italo Calvino's books "Cosmicomics" and "T-zero".

Me and he got a lot in common...

Often, people think that "2long" is an allusion to how long I've been "at this" (or that I'm bragging), but it's not. It's short for 2longhistory2quit, which should probably have been 2longhis2ry2quit, or even 2longhis2ry22uit, but the "2s" came rather late in the evolution of 2long!

back to lurkdom,
-Qfwfq

Just wanted to wave *hi* to 2long!