Ten of Wands and Ten of Cups

The burden and the reason for it. The Ten of Wands is bent under ten staves, carrying everything, with the town in sight; the Ten of Cups is the family under the rainbow. The tradition reads the pair as somebody carrying a genuine load for something genuinely worth it, and asks whether the load is still being noticed.

Associated with providing for a family at real personal cost. The pair reads the family as authentic and the carrying as unsustainable in its current form.

Overwork in service of a home life that is barely being attended. Frequently read where the reason for the work has become the thing the work displaces.

The figure in the Ten of Wands cannot see over the staves and the house is only a short distance away. Nothing in this pairing requires putting the load down permanently, only setting it down long enough to look up.