In episode 306 of ‘Ask Anything’, a storyteller who suffered domestic violence and gaslighting from her parents when she was young appears.

The mother, who began to suspect the storyteller when she was in the second grade of elementary school, cried and expressed her frustration while disciplining her due to her emotional ups and downs, and the father, who watched the situation, just stood by and watched.

She says that she was disciplined every time with the excuse of ‘for you’, ‘because I want you to do well’, and that during the process, she was even verbally abused by the storyteller, saying, ‘you are a useless person’.

Corporal punishment stopped when she entered middle school, but her mother‘s emotional ups and downs worsened, leading to verbal abuse.

She became independent right after graduating from high school, and only after she became an adult did she try to talk to her parents, saying that they loved her but that they didn’t seem to know how to do this, but she cut off communication with them when her mother said, “it‘s hard to hear your painful stories”.

Here, the story goes that when she was 25, her boyfriend’s dating violence and obsession caused her to stay up all night drinking to soothe her suffering, her parents came to visit her and started hurling abusive language at her again, and despite her cries, her father‘s violence continued, and she lost all affection for her family.

After that, the storyteller, who suffered from trauma and even bullying at work, said that she attempted extreme choices several times, but Lee Soo-geun firmly said, “Don’t even say that out loud.”

In the end, her parents were informed of this repeated extreme attempts, and her parents, who were shocked, reached out to her for reconciliation, but she felt no emotion.

She was moved to tears by Seo Jang-hoon and Lee Soo-geun‘s sincere advice, and what is the best thing for her and her parents, who are belatedly reaching out for reconciliation, will be revealed on tonight’s (3rd) episode of ‘Ask Anything’ You can check it out in episode 306.

Reporter Choi Yoon-na, Donga.com yyynnn@donga.com

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