Me: *applies acne treatment on my face after a nice hydration and then getting ready for my beauty sleep*
*the update*
Me: *cried everything off*
“I should change my phone again” after looking up what “safe word” is is even more alarming then not knowing what it means—
That Master is an abusive salt bastart
My brain did actually play the song the entire time and it carried the chapter hahahaha
I guessed from the summary and first chapter, but this is basically the story of a mother who gets a second chance at battling post partum depression. It’s amazing how well written this story is to be honest and it so realistic from all the characters’ sides! Like the toxic masculinity is so smooth too that even we just consider it the guys being heartless dicks but it’s obvious that they are just putting up fronts that they believe is right.
It’s so frustrating to read this though in a setting where mental health isn’t considered a real thing. Like SO many times I wanted to grab them by the shoulders, FL included, and shake them screaming “SHE IS SICK. SHE IS S I C K. IT’S NOT HER FAULT GET HER PROPER HELP SHE IS SICK IT’S JUST GONNA GET WORSE!”
Not recognizing her child as her own, getting frustrated while taking care of him, feeling randomly anxious and stressed, lonely, no feeling of love to her child, a dependency on her partner, it’s so so so striking but only to people who actually know what post partum depression is and how super severe it can get. And considering she 1) is limited in her freedom 2) has undergone a lot of stressful events 3) has communication/understanding issues with her husband 4) her husband often leaves for long period, leaving her feeling “abandoned” and 5) she cannot find even proper security in her marriage, the only thing she can lean on, because of the misunderstanding
The saddest saddest thing is how absolutely destroyed both her and ML are because of their confusion on her state. Like he is so confused and trying to help and appease somehow (without admitting his own feelings and battling his own expectation and reality distortion issues) and is hurt by misunderstanding her condition while she repeats so many times that she “doesn’t know” why she’s like this and that “it’s strange”.
It can’t get any clearer bro.
Anyways, all this to say that I really love how absolutely realistic this story is while still have some hella lovable characters
My only fear is that we’ll never have the satisfaction of everyone understanding that she is not at fault and that the guilt is just worsening her depression and emotional detachment from her child—
Like dang... imagine getting severe post partum depression as a teenager... man
QU CHENG YOU ARE A TOXIC SOCIAL TREND BREAKER （/TДT)/
No but like seriously, I usually end up getting mad for the male leads when the MC hides the fact that they have children because that is so so so so so wrong. Fathers are so underestimated and even often vilified in society and we act like children will never care about not having father but break down if they don’t have a mom when stats prove that fathers’ presence is extremely important for children’s development.
Like I fucking love these these type of stories, but it’s a breath of fresh air to have the ML get mad at the MC for keeping the child a secret and wanting to keep it a secret and not just because « I want us to be together » but « because I’m the father and it’s not fair »
Like fuck yes it’s not fair
Get us some good men’s rights movement right here hell yeah to progress
The chapters on webtoon are all caught up with these ones now and they’re TOTALLY FREE (plus there’s an extra few chapters to unlock if you can/want!) SO GO READ ON WEBTOONS TO SUPPORT! ヾ(☆▽☆)
It’s not “he shouldn’t abort” or “he should abort”
Wtf is “should”?
First of all this guy is a character and this story doesn’t make a stance on abortion, but even if he were let’s say real, there is no “he should this” or “that”. Everyone has different values. Saying to someone “you SHOULD do this” is just putting useless pressure on a survivor.
There are survivors out there who equally absolutely will keep a baby out of rape than ones who absolutely won’t.
Survivors are still victims who have just undergone trauma— making them go through mental debates on top of that just to feel your ideas to be valued is not worth it. If he wants to keep it, sure, abort it, it’s legal, so what.
Mind your life.
Ayt guys don’t go around asking people if they were sexually harassed—
But still I’m glad haebom finally knows (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
Tian cai be like “I am an aggressive dinosaur” but we hear it like “I agressib dino grr ٩(๑`^´๑)۶”
“Daiki say something!” And being smartly ignored is the most real married couple like thing I’ve ever seen and by a non married couple (yet) hahaha
WAIT NO WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH NOAH POOR CHILD ∑(ﾟДﾟ)
I don’t think he’s really being toxic, like I think in the contrary he’s giving the guy more freedom than most powerful seme’s we’ve seen. He isn’t implicating himself in the drama in a way that will hinder the MC’s newly found sense of freedom and he’s not forcefully making him stay by his side for “protection” or manipulate him into agreeing that he is happy with him.
The only issue I would have is if he doesn’t help him in time and MC gets hurt and he doesn’t feel guilty or bad about it
Like I’d be pissed
But letting the MC have full control and taking control damage control is better than the usual “Uke in distress and powerful Seme” trope i think even though this is strangely based on similar plot with its own completely different twist
I guessed right! This is really Fukuhara-sensei’s art! I was confused though when I saw that Onii-chan date amaetai wake de wasn’t part of the “author’s works” section so I ignored it until I went to double check today haha