the blessed house

The blessed house is about a couple who are not Christians but they keep on finding Christians figurines in their house. Sanjeev is the husband who has a very good job and makes a good bit of money while the wife, Twinkle, is more of a free spirit lady. Twinkle is thrilled by all of their religious figurine's in their home while Sanjeev refuses to accept these items. During the story Sanjeev is wondering who his wife is, as if she has changed over time and he does not like it. He goes back to the time when he and his wife use to date and he remembers how he use to be crazy about her. He use to love all of her corkiness and her odd habits but just like every married couple those things get annoying after time.

Sanjeev would get angry at the fact that he feels that all his wife does is just goes on a treasure hunt for the figurines and not contribute to the house. As the story goes on the religious fingurines become more of a burden to him while Twinkle gets more thrilled. As time goes by the reader can tell that Sanjeev gets a intense passive aggression towards her and her religious phase. He clearly tells Twinkle that he doesn't like it but other than that he doesn't tell her why he doens't like it. As a reader I feel like there was a miscommunication in this story. Twinkle doesn't what she wants and she cries when she doens't get her way. Sanjeev says the same thing about the figurines but does not do anything about them. The two couples get more aggrivated with each other was time goes by but they don'e talk about their aggravation.

To have a good marriage there must be good communication. Both parties must understand what the other person is say but more than that we must understand why. Just like the short story about how the two boys were making up a superhero their quesiton is not "what can he do." It's "why does he do what he does." To understand/explain the question why is to get to the deepest part of the heart, to understand their intention and their motives.