Bear with Sore Head

The husband came home tired every day. It was probably the excess work load at his office, but his wife suspected him. Every night, when the husband would doze off quickly, the wife would sniff around, she would check his shirt, pant and jacket pockets to find some evidence. She was furious, and if she did find something, then that would be the end of their married life.

The couple spent many a nights arguing about this, the husband always told that he had excess work at the office, but the wife refused to believe the nonsense. To the husband's unfortunate-ness, his wife check his savings in the bank account passbook only to be stunned at a withdrawal of whooping five lakhs. The wife couldn't take this anymore, she wanted to confront her husband in the office, and she immediately rushed to his office.

Adding to the chaotic moment of the day, the wife did not find her husband in the office. Some people who were still working there told her that her husband was fired three months ago. The wife simply couldn't control her temper, all the way back home, she was literally cursing her husband and herself for marrying him. Upon returning home, she packed her bags, wrote "I had been to your office today. I checked your bank account transactions. I am leaving this home forever. I can't live with a liar anymore!" on a piece of paper and left it on the table.

The husband came home late in the night, which was not unusual, and kept calling out to his wife in an excited voice, for he had managed to get a new job. He looked inside every room, but didn't find her. It was much later that his eyes fell upon the note that the wife had kept on the table. Shocked and depressed, the husband began crying loudly. This did not end for almost an hour. After sometime, he sat by his desk, and began contemplating on his actions.

If only he had been honest to his wife, she wouldn't have left him. If only he had told her that he lost the job three months ago, she would have somehow understood him and still supported him. If only he had told her that he had to take a huge loan from the office, where he worked, for her heart surgery three months ago, then probably she would have understood his plight. The doctors had insisted that no stressful news should be told to her, and all the while the husband buried all his difficulties under the carpet of pain.