You have fastened on the house, in the long absence of its master, as the scene of your perpetual feasts, and you could offer no better pretext for you conduct than you wish to win my hand in marriage.
There are countless situations that can keep two people from being together, every romance movie ever made has proven that fact and it is impossible to recount all the obstacles fictional people must face.
We do hear that Telemachus went to many government meetings which indicates Penelope kept the government in order and provides further evidence that she raised a good son.
