I agree with you. As someone who experienced domestic abuse, I can say there are many ways that people cope with the trauma. It may seem that he "forgets" about it but he doesn't, he still has that fear and trauma. I also agree with the statement about the "kind treatment". Its true that when someone is there for you in your lowest, you kind of become "vulnerable" with them.
Yeah, it sucks because you question yourself like Yeo-dam does and ask yourself if everything that’s happening is real. In a real life situation it might have not been but in this situation Jin-hwa is quite literally a different Jin-hwa from before so we can’t say whether or not what is happening is real or fake. I just feel bad for Yeo-dam because he’s obviously getting whiplash from this whole situation. Hopefully it gets resolved.
OMG, "whiplash" is the perfect word to describe what's happening here!
Sometimes I feel like Yeo-dam has sudden flashbacks when he's interacting with the emperor and he's reacting to both the current and old timeline versions of him. One moment he's cautiously ok and the next moment he's feeling sudden revulsion.
Not that the current version is a saint either. I guess it didn't help that the emperor slashed everyone for Yeo-dam not eating and that there was blood splatter everywhere. He feels disturbed by that and responsible and enters the emperor's quarters because he's doing as a favor for one of his slashed minders.
As someone who has a similar-ish (referring to domestic abuse) trauma to the Yeo-dam, these current scenes are entirely possible. Please don’t make it seem like Yeo-dam has to be living in despair 24/7 for his trauma to be accurate. This is what domestic abuse does to people’s brain when they are treated kindly after being treated badly. Your brain will be tricked into a feeling of safety and solitude thinking the danger is over when it isn’t. He’ll probably still have flashbacks and small moments when he remembers the past as a traumatic response but so long as he deals with his trauma and Jin-hwa treats him better, he might be able to “recover” in his own way. I mean this whole thing would be impossible to find in real life so it only makes sense that his trauma and resolve won’t make too much sense to us. Just some thoughts..