I remember when I first started to date Western men because it was what I was used to. Then from the first time I had a white boyfriend my family started to undermine that.
My dad was the golden boy in my family. He was loved just as he was. In my mind I always thought that my closeness to my father would manifest itself. It never did.
My mother always had emotional problems, so much so that she wasn’t able to function in real life. The impression I always got from her was that she could not hold down a job, or anything like that, because her emotions always got in the way. I have tried to not be like this in my adult life. But everything she said I had to take with a pinch of salt.
I feel like this Korean drama, which describes women at 39 years-old, described my life before 36.