RE: Entanglements, a poem

She really was strong! I never heard that story. I'd bought the story that David Copperfield was supposed to have been loosely based on Dicken's life. What a sham.
Yeah, my hubby demonized me. It was interesting to see how easily supposedly liberated women believed him. He was dying, so I looked the other way for the most part. He and I had moments like these in my poem as well but, instead of both of us working our butts off to get the family and dogs in the car for a long road trip, he did nothing but set lights on the timers, and he frustratingly waited until every single other thing was done before he did even that much. We'd be waiting for him out by the packed car. But I was the lazy and dull one. I wonder how many marriages have this aspect. Good for Catherine! And as much as I love reading Dickens, now my stomach has been turned. How easy that was!!! Dear me, are we all the same?

I have to wonder how many WOMEN are evil, manipulative, scheming, grasping, greedy, and awful to their husbands. Like, all those bleached-blonde bimbos that the narcissist men dump their wives for - come on, do these young women really believe you're so hot and so desirable, or do you just have MONEY, dude.... or power, or perks and favors and strings to pull.

Some years ago, a local woman drove to her husband's apartment (they were separated) and caught his mistress slipping out fast. She claims he threatened her, and the paring knife she grabbed to get him to stop advancing just... slipped! ... and she didn't intend to stab him in the heart with it.

She served a few years in prison, and got out on good behavior.

Was he really threatening her, or was she just sick of all his lies....
Wife says cheating husband walked into knife

.... The doctor stabbed in the chest was Richard Nelson, the 54-year-old executive dean of the University of Iowa College of Medicine, a nationally regarded pediatrics specialist. The woman who'd admitted stabbing him -- both to 911 and to the arriving officers -- was his wife of 33 years, Phyllis Nelson, mother of their two grown daughters. She was also 54. Somehow the couple -- she was a music teacher and a member of the choir at their Lutheran church -- had come to this bloody encounter in a sparsely furnished two-bedroom apartment. What had imploded in the marriage of two of eastern Iowa's best and brightest?
an ongoing messy love triangle – with Phyllis, her husband and his secretary -- had ended in a fatal confrontation in the kitchen of his temporary apartment.

There was no question that the weapon, a common kitchen paring knife with a short blade, was in Phyllis Nelson's hand.

The matter before the court was what was in Phyllis' mind when the stabbing occurred.

She'd pleaded not guilty, claiming it was an accident.

She said she'd held the blade straight in front of her in a posture of self-defense when she rounded a blind corner and her furious husband walked right into the blade....

.... Sleeping with the secretary resulted in a sharp career setback for the previously impeccable Dr. Richard Nelson, the man many at the medical school referred to as "their moral compass." Those compromising snapshots resulted in a letter of reprimand in his official file and the loss of some $30,000 from his paycheck that year.

.... After serving three and half years in an Iowa woman's prison, Phyllis Nelson walked free, released to her friends who'd stood by her all the while... she was paroled to Illinois, where she is said to be living near family. She'll remain on parole until her sentence is complete in September 2007.