Familiar Wife - The torture continues - ep 5-6

It's ep5 now. How much has Juhyeok changed? Not too much, but he's starting to feel positive emotions towards Wujin again. So we find out that not only does Wujin have deja-vu feelings around Juhyeok, but the alternate timeline somehow doesn't get messed up for Wujin's dementia-inflicted mother. She sees Juhyeok and calls him Cha-son-in-law without missing a beat. This encounter finally makes Juhyeok realize that Wujin had been dealing with her sick mother issue for a long time and he never cared enough to listen to her when she first mentioned it when they were married. Oh look, the prick is starting to see how inconsiderate he was to both Wujin and her ailing mother. 

By the way, Hyewon, his not-so-perfect wife, has been practically cheating on him with some younger man she bumped into at her university teaching job on campus. She's been flirting with him, pretending to be a single woman while Juhyeok himself has been going around with Wujin down memory lane. I'm sure that they will both end up getting a divorce because Hyewon and Juhyeok were never meant to be together. The younger student guy was probably who Hyewon would have ended up with in the original timeline. 

Anyways, Juhyeok and Hyewon actually had a spat previously due to him inviting his parents unannounced over and her kicking them out essentially. She left the house to stay at a hotel and he really didn't seem to give a crap that she left because she called him first and he scoffed when she had called him. He also really shows more attention and care towards Wujin than his own wife, EVEN THOUGH he changed his past so that he could be with Hyewon. Either way, she came back to the house, but both really don't seem to be in love with each other at this point. 

I think the dumbest scene I've seen so far is Juhyeok deciding he needs to drive back to bank to prevent a potential bank robbery. There had been a robbery case at another bank and just the day before, they had a robbery simulation at their bank where Wujin antagonized the fake robbers to stall for time. Instead of just calling his workmates to alert them of the suspect potentially canvasing their bank, he decides to drive all the way back, as if he were the only person able to stop it from happening. He was out in another area, getting a customer to sign off a new deal. What a normal, smart person would do is either alert the cops or alert the other bank staff, maybe the manager or something so that they can prepare.

So Juhyeok starts falling for Wujin again after seeing her not as his wife, but as an individual person, something he had stopped doing in the previous timeline. Unfortunately, his single best friend (who was previously married) has fallen in love with Wujin too. I should add that Juhyeok works at the bank with his best friend and currently, Wujin. Cue the jealous Juhyeok obstructing his best friend wooing Wujin even though Wujin is no longer his wife and he's supposed to be happily married to Hyewon like he wanted to be. 

While trying to block his best friend, he learns more and more about his wife. He thought Wujin liked watching romantic comedies, but she watches them to cry so that no one would realize why she's really crying. She's so prideful that she doesn't want to look weak. He gets flashbacks to him being an asshole husband and not realizing how hurt she was when he missed his father-in-law's memorial day because of work. He doesn't even realize that she's sad not from the romance movie she's watching but because he wasn't there to support her. He sees that his mother-in-law had left him some of his favorite kimchi and that's it. 

Again, he only focuses on himself cuz he spent the time complaining about his boss instead of comforting his wife and he only cared about the kimchi. He even tries to change the current channel to HIS sports game while ignoring her. He really only asked her once about her feelings and that was it. He then just storms off to play games. He doesn't even go to comfort her and just sit and accompany her when he hears and sees her crying. It's quite clear that he takes his wife for granted and only realizing the error of his ways now during his flashbacks.

Ah, there was this one scene that irked me a little bit. Juhyeok has this epiphany that he made all these promises to her and her mother, but he failed to keep them in the end. However, he also pinned the broken promises on her too. Why I don't like this is because he realizes that he might have been part of the problem, but he pins it on her/them when he still hasn't seen himself being the bad guy yet. 

Oh, I spoke too soon. He actually makes the realization that he's the one who turned her into a monster. YES. That's what I wanted. He admits to knowing her how overburdened she was but choosing to turn a blind eye so he could only focus on himself. He knows now how much he played a hand in making the person he cherished become the person he started to hate and fear. He basically took, took, took from her without ever giving in return. I'm actually getting really sad at this part, but not for him, but for his wife who was left alone to deal with everything. Their kids, her mother, and just... her. 

I don't want this to end up with him divorcing Hyewon and getting married to the current Wujin. I want him to go back in time and make amends with HIS original Wujin. It's cowardly if he just abandons the broken Wujin he had a hand in making. He may not be in that timeline anymore, but that Wujin is still there alone and even more heartbroken from his last cruel words to her before he disappeared. I want him to desperately want to go back to his old timeline where Wujin is his wife, but failing to do so. I want him to suffer in knowing that he really wronged her. But I also want him to return and talk to her about everything and have her realize her abusive behavior too. I want her previous character to evolve. I want to see them work things out in the original timeline. To heal as people, as a couple.