Today’s blog post examines two very symbolic objects with one very important lesson. It is time to take your place at the table and the tower.
The table
In a kitchen, there stands a breakfast table in a comfortable house on a bright and peaceful day. A man sits at this table staring out the window into a finely mowed backyard. On the table’s opposite end sits a woman staring into her coffee as she slowly stirs it around and around.
The day may be bright and peaceful, the backyard may be finely trimmed, the coffee may be of pleasant aroma, but the atmosphere is anything but cheery. You see, this man and this woman have not had a heart-to-heart talk in years.
Over the course of their marriage, they learned to exist in cohabitation without effective communication. Many would refer to it as “going through the motions”. It is a marriage without strength and direction. Two lives voluntarily put on autopilot; a relationship hardly worth mentioning. In time, without communication, this marriage will dissolve either through eternal complacency or through separation and divorce.
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