My Liberation Notes ep 10

God, Tae-hoon’s family (especially Kyung-soon) has a massive baggage that they don’t even know existed, and they keep passing those baggage off towards Yu-rim, it’s a wonder the kid is well-adjusted enough growing up around her aunt.

I mean, I’m not making light of that family’s painful experiences, but it feels like Kyung-soon is refusing to move on from that hurt and resent Tae-hoon for wanting to do something more proactive about that problem. She is determined to begrudge Tae-hoon of wanting to live his life, and she is just as determined to teach that particular lesson to Yu-rim, which… problematic on all front.

If I was Ki-jung, I would be relieved not to be able to get inside that family. Tae-hoon might be a very decent man, but his family is tight-knitted to the point of being completely closed off and disapproving of any possible new person entering their circle, which is a huge red flag for me. And here I thought that Yu-rim would be the biggest problem Ki-jung has to solve if she wanted a relationship with him. Apparently the real problem is so much more complicated and messy than that.
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    I would run miles away from this family. But KJ being KJ she would want to protect him and liberate him too 🙂
    My first hint was in an earlier episode (probably ep 1) when she got the girl an expensive gift and mentioned something about she having to take care of her? I need to rewatch that episode/scene. The sister makes me extremely uncomfortable.
    you are right, they are living in a silo and don’t want anything to change. There are absolutely no boundaries either.

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    Gosh, I hate his sister GS! You are so right about her resenting him from wanting to move on. I got so angry every time she sneered at him for “daring” to date someone.
    And the manipulation? At first the “I dedicated my life to my niece” sounded cute and sweet. Now to me it sounds like “I dedicated my life to you and your daughter, you better be grateful and stay here with us forever”, ugh!!
    GJ can and should just leave if the situation gets too toxic (I mean she has options 😉), but I feel so bad for TH, he’s stuck with the toxicity forever. No wonder he’s so depressed all the time. I hope he can try to liberate himself from his family and find some happiness.

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    Yeah, that family…
    I feel bad for all of them, tbh.
    I hope they can heal (and accept KJ in the process).

    I wonder how much crap they have to hear every day about the three siblings living together, the child without mom, the single dad, the over-40 single woman raising her niece, etc. Even KJ did, even if it wasn’t on purpose.

    I think I would also try to protect my niece from all that stuff. I wouldn’t trust anyone.

    Tae Hoon wasn’t the only that lost his arms, his sisters too. And I imagine the big sister doing everything to protect the other two.

    And now she watches her niece with only one arm…

    I’m not saying that what she’s doing is right, there’s a lot of stuff she shouldn’t be saying in front of that kid, but I want to give her a chance to change. We did the same with Ki Jeong.
    Well, we’re doing the same with all the leads.

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