However, he had announced this to any number of friends and strangers, even referring to her on occasions as "my wife".

The other characters refer to her only as "Curley's wife".

It annoyed me that he always referred to Susan as my wife, instead of by her name.

After all, he referred to her as his wife.

I think you generally refer to her as 'Zdorab's wife.'

Afterwards, the betrothed is referred to as one's "would-be" wife or husband.

"At least they didn't refer to me as Roarke's wife until the third paragraph."

He began referring to her as my wife.

Although she later called herself Young's "wife no. 19," others have referred to her as his "27th wife."

Williams has been referring to Field as his "wife" in recent interviews.