This chapter explores whether Geoffrey Chaucer had a happy married life with Philippa de Roet. It is important to understand what drove critics to look almost exclusively to Chaucer's poetry when talking about the poet's marriage. Nobody is in possession of any private correspondence between the husband and wife. Although it seems quite likely that Chaucer and Philippa spent long periods living apart, but it is unlikely that they were estranged, as Philippa's annuity through the early 1380s most often designated her husband as the payee. The chapter looks at the House of Fame where it finds that the distinction between the tone of the Eagle and Philippa's voice has led some to claim that this is evidence of Chaucer's being a “henpecked husband.” However, it has been demonstrated that the linkage between bad marriages and St. Leonard in Chaucer is probably the invention of an early, prominent editor and critic.