Cuckolds??

[GQ Chris]

How do you continue on with a woman that does this? I personally couldn't.

 

[marciebaby]

what are you talking about?

 

[Mrs. Enigma]

I don't think this makes any sense to me.

 

[Mirelys]

A "cuckold" is a man who has been cheated on. So he's asking how a husband can stay in the marriage after his wife has cheated.

 

[5stringJeff]

How do you continue on with a woman that does this? I personally couldn't.

Forgiveness. It's not happened to me, but I've seen it happen.

 

[llghoney]

I guess it would depend on their relationship.

 

[Leanna]

Excuse me? I personally take offense to the term. Its like using some of the other derogatory terms out there. Please edit it, if you want to discuss the issue, start with a little respect first.

 

[GQ Chris]

Excuse me? I personally take offense to the term. Its like using some of the other derogatory terms out there. Please edit it, if you want to discuss the issue, start with a little respect first.

It wasn't meant to offend anyone, "Cuckold" is not a deragotory term, I think the connotation behind it is what bothers you. Either case I don't really feel the need to apologize because I didn't disrespect anyone.

 

[llghoney]

I really had never heard of the word I just responded on what Mirelys said the word to be.

 

[Mirelys]

It is a derogatory term...at least it was in the Middle Ages and honestly this is the first time I've heard it used in a modern situation

 

[llghoney]

Is it an English word? I know when I first saw it I was like what is this???

 

[Leanna]

Either case I don't really feel the need to apologize because I didn't disrespect anyone.

Okay, well, I guess I can't answer your question for you. I don't hang out in places where my husband is labelled negatively.

 

[AbidingInHim]

[size=-1]NOUN:[/size]A man married to an unfaithful wife.


[size=-1]ETYMOLOGY:[/size]Middle English cokewald, from Anglo-Norman [size=-1]*[/size]cucuald, from cucu, the cuckoo, from Vulgar Latin [size=-1]*[/size]cucc

lus, from Latin cuc

lus.


[size=-1]WORD HISTORY:[/size]The allusion to the cuckoo on which the word cuckold is based may not be appreciated by those unfamiliar with the nesting habits of certain varieties of this bird. The female of some Old World cuckoos lays its eggs in the nests of other birds, leaving them to be cared for by the resident nesters. This parasitic tendency has given the female bird a figurative reputation for unfaithfulness as well. Hence in Old French we find the word cucuault, composed of cocu, “cuckoo, cuckold,” and the pejorative suffix –ald and used to designate a husband whose wife has wandered afield like the female cuckoo. An earlier assumed form of the Old French word was borrowed into Middle English by way of Anglo-Norman. Middle English cokewold, the ancestor of Modern English cuckold, is first recorded in a work written around 1250.

 

[AbidingInHim]

Personally I think the use of the word was for shock affect....to get more poeple to read the thread rather than just saying forginve your wife after adultary

 

[llghoney]

[size=-1]NOUN:[/size]A man married to an unfaithful wife.


[size=-1]ETYMOLOGY:[/size]Middle English cokewald, from Anglo-Norman [size=-1]*[/size]cucuald, from cucu, the cuckoo, from Vulgar Latin [size=-1]*[/size]cucc

lus, from Latin cuc

lus.


[size=-1]WORD HISTORY:[/size]The allusion to the cuckoo on which the word cuckold is based may not be appreciated by those unfamiliar with the nesting habits of certain varieties of this bird. The female of some Old World cuckoos lays its eggs in the nests of other birds, leaving them to be cared for by the resident nesters. This parasitic tendency has given the female bird a figurative reputation for unfaithfulness as well. Hence in Old French we find the word cucuault, composed of cocu, “cuckoo, cuckold,” and the pejorative suffix –ald and used to designate a husband whose wife has wandered afield like the female cuckoo. An earlier assumed form of the Old French word was borrowed into Middle English by way of Anglo-Norman. Middle English cokewold, the ancestor of Modern English cuckold, is first recorded in a work written around 1250.

WOW!!! Thanks for the explaining of this word. Kinda strange in a way.

Learn something new everyday!

 

[GQ Chris]

Okay, well, I guess I can't answer your question for you. I don't hang out in places where my husband is labelled negatively.

Were you unfaithful to your husband?

 

[InTheFlame]

I always think back to my childhood when I hear that term... my parents kept chickens and the younger roosters were always trying to get in when the dominant rooster's back was turned... I wonder if that's somewhere in the origin of the word, too?

 

[oIgo]

[size=-1]NOUN:[/size]A man married to an unfaithful wife.


[size=-1]ETYMOLOGY:[/size]Middle English cokewald, from Anglo-Norman [size=-1]*[/size]cucuald, from cucu, the cuckoo, from Vulgar Latin [size=-1]*[/size]cucc

lus, from Latin cuc

lus.


[size=-1]WORD HISTORY:[/size]The allusion to the cuckoo on which the word cuckold is based may not be appreciated by those unfamiliar with the nesting habits of certain varieties of this bird. The female of some Old World cuckoos lays its eggs in the nests of other birds, leaving them to be cared for by the resident nesters. This parasitic tendency has given the female bird a figurative reputation for unfaithfulness as well. Hence in Old French we find the word cucuault, composed of cocu, “cuckoo, cuckold,” and the pejorative suffix –ald and used to designate a husband whose wife has wandered afield like the female cuckoo. An earlier assumed form of the Old French word was borrowed into Middle English by way of Anglo-Norman. Middle English cokewold, the ancestor of Modern English cuckold, is first recorded in a work written around 1250.

sweet, I've just been schooled

 

[oIgo]

How do you continue on with a woman that does this? I personally couldn't.

You choose to forgive or not to forgive. It may be easier to forgive looking through the eyes of Jesus. I don't think he hung on the cross for all the well behaved people.

 

[JC4Dude]

I don't know that it's only a old-time word. There are some communities where men WANT their wives to cheat and be openly promiscuous. Those husbands are cuckolded, and proud.

I don't see the term really applying to one-time affairs, or even a string string of affairs. An important element is the man's knowledge. If he knows of her behavior and "puts up with it" he is cuckolded. If she is doing it behind his back, I think there is less call for this word to be used.