THE HOME IS A BEEHIVE OF CONFLICT WHEN EACH MATE HIDES BEHIND A CURTAIN OF BUSINESS.

Marriages have been known to break up when mates do not communicate. But what if both mates want to and love to communicate once in a while, but suddenly the other partner has no time at that moment, or does not have that second to spare?

Family Cartoon by Andertoons

This is what no marriage or home should be: each mate hiding behind busy schedules or chores when the time for communication and sharing things is needed.

This is the scenario: Wife wants to talk with husband. Darling, do you have a second to spare? Husband is busy with the tires on his car or some other interesting hobby and tells her: I need to get this done now, Darling. If this happens often and on, the wife might become resentful and being human, she could find an excuse to retaliate.

Hence, the above cartoon.

Roles could change both ways. The cartoonist is fascinated with the fact that when any of the mates has a second, it turns out to be not a second to spare at all, because the other is busy and vice versa.

So, the question is: Who is going to give way to the other? That question should not have come about if communication has not started to break down and if resentment and backbiting has not started becoming a demon who has found a victim.

So, for all you newlyweds and agedly married, lurking behind a curtain of business might turn out to be costly in terms of family communication.