Don’t let the distinction between the two words throe you.
Two often-confused words are throw (with a bunch of meanings, from “the act of throwing” to a type of shawl) and throe (primarily
with meanings of sudden movement, jerking, convulsion—either physical or mental). So, one way to alarm the persnickitors is to write something like “George was in the throws of passion ...”
Now, maybe George was actually getting entangled with a paramour wearing a pretty sexy shawl, but that’s unlikely given that not many shawls are sexy and that by the time you hit the stage of passionate throes, usually the shawls and other accoutrements have been dispensed with. So, literate writers are careful to distinguish between, say, the throws that hit a baseball batter in the ribs, and the throes of anger that will likely result.
Except...
If you want to start an argument with a persnickitor, you could point out that earlier spellings of throe include throwe and—as recorded as late as 1773— throw.