>>>>>
>>>>>You could have at least spelled her name right. :)
>>>>>
>>>>>I guess love is truly blind.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Trace is my pet name for her....just like people call me "Kev"...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Ahhh. Silly me.
>>>>
>>>>Only my wife gets to call me 'Kev'
>>>
>>>My wife also calls me Kev - but only in the throws of passion. I find it somewhat disturbing ...
>>
>>Throws of passion ?!
>
>Viv,
>you must see how things like that feels to people not born with english. I mean, I grab the idea. But ...
>On http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/throw do I end up with #9?
>

No, #1. What Charles meant was throes of passion. It is pretty funny to picture him hurling his wife through the air when they get passionate. (Or maybe she hurls him? Hmmmm).

PS -- Your English is just fine. Having only a little pidgin Spanish myself, I am impressed by people who can carry on a conversation in a second language.