Comment by Aura on Tears on a Withered Flower - Chapter 92

@Aura huh excuse me?  "circumstances beat them down" Yeah because of whom? He took out loans in his wife's name and has the nerve to get angry because his wife works too hard to pay off HIS debts. Their relationship broke down because of that, and also because he's a jerk for not being able to support Haeso when she had a miscarriage and became unable to give birth. He's an ass****. Period.

@Aura I agree with you wholeheartedly.

I think the complexities of people, their nature and culture, ageism, sexism, classism, and the intersection of all of these really come through in this manhwa.

the pacing is a bit slow and you get a lot of monologue and some behaviors don't make sense, etc.

i feel the same as you about the orange haired guy. We've seen his past, we've seen him be a decent person and he's been hardened and changed by circumstance. I want him to suffer but I also want him to grow. I want him to realize what he's become and also wind up in a better place. I want the lesson to be painful though.

@Cain_vrd he's also abandoned his prospects to be with her. losing a child isn't easy to man, either. the debts aren't always avoidable in life, and they have no family to rely on. being hired isn't up to the one applying.

sometimes life just doesn't work out. it's a vicious cycle. and i'm not saying he isn't an a**, i say i understand.

with a generous hindsight, it's obvious them being together was a mistake. it's ruined them both. now, separetely, they can try to be who they were meant to be. just as @Venaldre below said, i look forward to his growing pains back towards the path of righteouosness.

@Aura this is where I can tell readers on here are young. One of the most important things you can learn in life is empathy and empathy shows you two truths can exist at once.

he can be upset about the miscarriage and in pain. He can also not have been the best supportive partner during that time. He can be an ass**** while also not being a necessarily bad person. Good people can do bad things.

two truths can exist at one time and neither invalidates the other.

also it's not really about blame. He didn't singlehandedly destroy that relationship. She wasn't communicating and was sinking into herself shirking herself to death. We see how imperfect she is and vulnerable and self conscious and insecure. They are an example of a relationship that rots from within when you don't grow together, and allow resentment to creep in unchecked. When you cheat on your partner, that relationship and trust is over and broken before that decision is even made. The action just solidifies it