'Oh Eun-young Report - Marriage Hell' featured the 'maid and beast couple,' evoking sadness over a relationship in ruins.
In the 163rd episode of MBC's Oh Eun-young Report - Marriage Hell (abbreviated Marriage Hell), which aired on the 13th, a trainer couple who run a gym together, nicknamed the 'maid and beast couple,' appeared.
They married after the husband's persistent courtship, but they continued a precarious, vertical married life more like boss and employee than spouses. Eventually the wife tearfully pleaded, I want to run away from my husband.
In reality, the husband frequently called the wife's name during work and continued issuing orders and commands. In particular, he did not hesitate to verbally abuse his wife in front of other employees; even during the filming of Marriage Hell, he hurled shocking insults and profanity at his wife such as XX, are you crazy, and XXX is for real, making listeners doubt their ears. As a result, not only the wife but also gym members felt tense and watched the husband closely.
Even after work, the wife suffered under the husband's commands. While doing housework she received work instructions, and he asked her to remove fish bones and to put on his socks, having the wife do even trivial tasks. The wife appealed, We are not a married couple but servants. I have to serve my husband in every way.
Above all, the husband became extremely irritated over minor issues and even threw objects. Unable to tolerate situations that deviated from his standards, he ultimately blamed everything on his wife, and the husband's relentless pressure left the wife increasingly helpless, which added to the poignancy.
The husband insisted, The wife is the cause of all this. It turned out that a year earlier the wife had lost her entire fortune of 70 million won in an investment scam in a coin reading room. The husband recalled, I couldn't even pay the employees' salaries. Things looked hopeless; I even looked into euthanasia drugs. Following the husband's continued criticism, the wife harmed herself, and she cried, saying, With this sense of guilt, how am I supposed to continue married life? I just thought I should die.
Psychologist Oh Eun-young diagnosed that the husband has difficulty controlling his emotions, saying, When something happens that differs from expectations, he feels anxiety and immediately expresses that anxiety as irritation and anger. He emphasized, There will inevitably be things no one can control. How you accept that is ultimately your own choice. He also said, The wife shows learned helplessness. You two must revolutionize your way of communicating, suggesting that the couple take personal time and use precise forms of address while working.
In the end, toward the end of the broadcast the husband said, I saw many things I need to fix. I will change how I express myself. I'm sorry and I love you, and the wife also expressed a desire to continue the marriage, saying, I want to focus on married life. Will they be able to show change?
That day, Marriage Hell, with special MC Park Tae-hwan joining, recorded a nationwide and metropolitan area rating of 2.3% according to Nielsen Korea. The figure, down 1.3 percentage points from last week's 3.6%, added to the shock. It seems that a broken marital relationship alone is no longer enough to capture viewers' hearts.
Nevertheless, that day's Marriage Hell ranked first in its time slot with a 2054 target rating of 1.2%. Will positive changes in the 'maid and beast couple,' whose relationship collapsed due to extreme personality differences, be revealed through Marriage Hell? Attention is focused on any future developments of Marriage Hell.
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