This drama makes me hold my breath so many times while watching!
At first I was angry why Sun Woo is’t taking serious action to bring him down and why she gets surprised again n again but it was so silly of me!
That woman’s entire life suddenly fell apart and she went from perfection to disaster in the blink of an eye!

That scene in the hotel..I was waiting to see her back off n leave but NO! she did it! She sacrificed herself to teach Tae Oh a bigger lesson!
Go girl, go! Let them face the music!

So much anger and pain revisted after reading this engrossing, brilliantly detailed recap. And I scroll up, and I realise it's my favourite recapper, @missvictrix. I love how you insert your own thoughts and feelings in your recaps, and hey, they could easily be mine too...maybe we forged a cosmic connection when we left our brains behind in Forest.

Almost every scene hurt. The song playing at the beginning. And in the end. Promises made and broken. A false friend playing a wife against a cheating husband. Lie upon lie. A son torn between witnessing his father's infidelity - I believe it was him who filmed the vomit-inducing illicit romp in the garden - and wanting his parents to stay together. A mother begging her daughter-in-law to understand, and using her grandson to drive the knife in. Such a powerful part, with lines that cut me to the core, and delivered by a dying woman, the emotions that it invoked...you pity her because she is sick, and you want to strangle her at the same time. A dignified woman who accepts her husband's cheating and likens it to "excretion" - such a powerful word, dirty, hidden, and base - because that is the only way she can live with a cheater. A man who is in love with his friend's wife, who broke my heart when he said to her, "You look nice. You always look nice," and then crushed it when he revealed he was not leaving his wife, it would be an illicit affair, after all. And the part that hurt the most, the cheating husband sitting on his bed, lying to his wife on the phone, the mistress on the bed.

Looking in from the outside, you can't help but be taken aback at the actions these characters take and wonder what is going through their minds. Take Tae-oh with his endless lying and deception but who shares with others that he loves both women. Then there's Hyun-seo who's regularly battered by her abusive boyfriend but she has apparently convinced herself she's his only relationship hope. We have neighbor Je-hyuk thinking it's ok to jump into bed with your friend/client's wife because, hey, he's always liked her so why not. There's hospital colleague Myung-sook playing friend one minute and spy the next. The list goes on with this show.

Certainly an interesting and riveting look at some of the behaviors people engage in and the justifications they make.

"Another thing that A Couple’s World is really bringing out beautifully is the psychological tension that results when a person is pushed to his/her limit. It’s a huge theme in the Greek tragedy to which this story is a nod (more to come on that later),"

Thank you! Now I want to read "Medea" too.

This is truly "hell hath no fury like a woman's scorned." This show is going to be revenge hellish. I fear for those that wronged her before and in the future.

I saw the previews and it looks like the next episodes is going to be the dinner party from hell. Buckle up everyone.

I am obsessed, why is Kim Hae Ae best in Melodramatic adultery dramas. She is so freaking good here.

Just to provide a bit of cultural perspective, there are research that indicates that almost half of married men in Korea end up cheating on their spouses and 40% do not consider paying for sex adultery. Add to that how much stigma surrounds getting a divorce, you have your answer to what Sun Woo is going through and why so many people are willingly to let it slide. I kinda didn't hate that she slept with Jae Hyuk....like she said, women have base instincts as much as men and then why the double standard. Not to mention, it is horrible what Jae Hyuk's wife did to her along with Jae Hyuk. I can't wait till she kicks Tae Oh with not a penny to his name. Also is Da Kyung stupid, her dad would freaking kill Tae Oh if he figures out what is going on here, this divorce would not change a single thing for her or Tae Oh.

Great recap!
This show makes my blood boil, I don't even know how Sun-woo can keep living the lie and look at her husband or friends. So many lines and bonds have been damaged. Seo-won using her patient as the spy, her friend and colleague betraying her, the husband breaking their vows. The lengths she is going to to get vengeance and the truth are shocking, I'm wondering how things will play out in the coming episodes.

I don’t watch makJang shows, and shows about married ppl etc don’t interest me. But for reason, this seems to be a thriller more than a tearjerker. It’s interesting to see the main lead actress Sun Woo character grow. And yes indeed, her neighbour isn’t any less better than the hubby.

Let’s see what the new doctor’s role is. And I hope that Hyun Seon reports her abusive ex BF.

What I am glad is to see Sun Woo handling this very sensibly. Instead of focusing her anger on getting rid of the “mistress” and keeping the husband, she turns to protecting her son and assets. As for the lady with wealthy husband, she made the choice to stay with him because he gave her financial security and society prestige. She wants to keep that. It’s her choice. If the husband is poor, I think she would have dumped him on the spot.

I don't agree with what she did by sleeping with her "friend's" husband but it could potentially make the story more interesting. She is still highly emotional and resentful WHILE trying to make extremely calculated moves so she won't be screwed in her divorce. I think people were assuming the anger from the betrayal would make her immediately snap into a calculated killing machine where we root for everything she does that is meticulous and calculated but that is not realistic. This whole situation is going to be MESSY and I don't see her ending being the best whether or not she gets some type of revenge. I'm along for the ride!!

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, especially when that woman has nothing to lose anymore.
I would like to believe that she was going to simply get a divorce as cleanly and as quietly as she could when she first found out about the affair—because we all know S.Korea is backwards and stigma on divorce isn’t kind, and it’s even harsher on women in such a patriarchal society— but then all bets were off and all hell broke loose when she realized that her son found out about the affair and knows about it now, too

Thanks for the weecap.