Agamemnon, for example, told him not to tell his wife everything that happened and to keep certain things hidden, the thus keeping in the state of mind that he must have adopted at Troy. Odysseus's mother Anticlea, however, argues that he should return home and tell his wife all his sorrow and suffering, and that storytelling, in fact, might help bring them closer together after he has been away for so long. Finally, Teiresias does not explicitly tell him what will happen in his personal relationship with Penelope, but he warns him that when he returns home after a long and hard journey, he will be a broken man and that he will then have to struggle against the suitors, once again, keeping him a part of the Iliadic world. Ulysses is probably also considering the fact that he will have to face his family after almost ten years of absence. Telemachus grew up without a father, Penelope without a husband, and Ulysses will have to reconnect with both of them, perhaps the most decisive battle of them all.