Professor Lee Hoseon ultimately showed tears during counseling.
Today (5th) on tvN STORY's "Lee Hoseon counseling center," Professor Lee Hoseon first warns of the dangers of morbid jealousy in spouses—Othello syndrome—through Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello." In particular, Professor Lee Hoseon explains the mechanism of this disorder, which extends beyond simple jealousy into delusions and control, and points out how it can infiltrate even ordinary relationships around us.
In the full counseling session, the desperate "drinking war" of a couple in their third year of marriage is revealed. The wife is only 34 years old, but she is diagnosed with a shocking condition: she downs whiskey in one shot every day and drinks until she collapses, and despite her young age her brain has atrophied to the point that it is no different from that of an elderly person. The husband, afraid something might happen to his wife while she is drinking, becomes vigilant, and the wife hides the bottles to avoid his gaze, repeating a vicious cycle.
Professor Lee Hoseon discerns that the husband's control stems from dangerous anxiety. But the bigger problem is the cruel trauma hidden behind the wife's binge drinking, a trauma so painful she finds it difficult even to speak of. Hearing the wife's confession that she tries to forget a horrific past event with alcohol, Lee Hoseon said, "It's a miracle that you have lived this far," and shared in her pain. For the wife trapped in trauma and the husband consumed by anxiety, Professor Lee Hoseon presented a "stabilization" solution.
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