MBC‘s ‘Oh Eun-young Report - Marriage Hell’ features a husband who holds all the financial power as the head of the household and a wife who is miserable because of her husband who tries to rule the family with money, a ‘strong couple’.

The wife shows an extraordinary spirit of service, saying that her favorite thing is donating her talents and helping people in need. As such, the reason the wife decided to get married was because she wanted to help her husband for the rest of her life. However, the wife now feels like a ‘servant’ rather than a ‘wife’ and wishes to get away from her husband. She expresses her frustration, saying that her husband is obsessed with money and thinks that he can rule the family only if he holds the money. The wife also confesses that ‘when she gets a credit card from her husband’ is the most miserable. When the husband exceeds the credit card limit of 100,000 won set by him while shopping, he nags her and even personally checks the receipt. Even having to return the card to her husband after using it is frustrating.

However, the husband says that his wife’s claims that she is treating him like a dictator are exaggerated. He says, “I have the financial power because I am the head of the household,” and that it is natural for him to be responsible for the household finances. The husband then says, “Honestly, from my perspective, I might feel cowardly,” and seems to understand his wife, but says that he does not want to spend when things are not going well. The husband‘s feelings of “I do not want to spend when things are not going well” are no exception in his relationship with his children. The husband, who never pays his eldest son’s hospital bills easily, is currently feeling a great sense of betrayal from his eldest son and is having an uncomfortable relationship with him. Why has the husband become so distant from his family that he even avoids paying his son‘s hospital bills?



Meanwhile, the husband continuously avoided talking to his wife during daily filming and requested that the broadcast be stopped. Even though he agreed to filming, the husband kept his mouth shut. When the production crew approached him to hear his story, he said, “He follows me around nagging me”, “The PD is really persistent”, and avoided them throughout the filming, which made it even more difficult for the production crew. The MCs were said to have been anxious, saying, “This is not ordinary, this is the appearance of a really strong husband”, and “The filming itself must not have been easy”, which made people even more curious.

The husband finally opened his heart after much persuasion from the production crew. What exactly is the husband’s true intention, and what will Dr. Oh Eun-young’s healing report be given to the two who have lost trust due to financial issues? The story of the ‘Strong Couple’ can be seen on the 99th episode of ‘Oh Eun-young Report - Marriage Hell’ on MBC on Monday, November 18th at 10:45 PM.

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