Name: Busy Dad Neglects Wife and Kid, Pays Ultimate Price
Uploaded: 2026-03-04T06:06:58.000Z
Duration: 3 min 36 s
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Modal verbs - A2

You never think it could happen until it happens to you.

This is a story of a husband, wife and son.

The husband is a very successful businessman, very wealthy.

But both his wife and young son suffer from loneliness.

Every night they sit at the dinner table and they cry together because they miss him and he misses birthdays and anniversaries.

Now, the father is already very successful, but still doesn't have time for his wife and son.

Even when he's at home, he's not truly home.

He's thinking about his business meetings, his clients.

He's on the phone, texting and making calls.

One day, the wife finally gets fed up and she goes to her husband and says, honey, we are very lonely here.

And the husband very lovingly says, darling, for the time being, no one can replace me as director.

when I find a new director, I will have more time for you and our son.

Six months later, the husband was driving on the same road he took home every night.

His company replaced him and found a new director in just two days.

Isn't it sad that we spend so much time on the things that are urgent that we have none left for those things that are important?

Striving for a better life and wealth for yourself and your family is great.

Look, I don't think you can get too much money.

If money becomes your God, if you make a million dollars but lose your health in the process, is that success?

If you make it to the top of the corporate ladder but lose your friends and family in the process, is that success?

I ask you, are you taking for granted the moments with the real people who are close to you?

By focusing on a future moment that doesn't even exist, I urge you to focus on what's real and now.

And as they say, there has never been a deathbed regret.

That said, boy, I wish I spent more time in the office.