Thankyou for this post. I'm honestly surprised that people are blaming the fl for what happened to her. She had no power and even if she had any, she wasn't aware of it. People really don't realise that a huge part of our behaviour and personality is learned by interacting with our environment. She was abused since childhood and expecting her to be anything but cowardly or a psychopath is pushing it. I'm surprised she is able to take all these steps to strengthen her position in this life let alone her previous life. People just don't realise how damaging trauma and abuse is to your confidence and personality and your ability to function day to day.
She returned back in time where she is already pregnant with Elle. She cant possibly divorce him now knowing her husband will get to have custody of her ONLY child. That is the one thing she couldn’t allow since she already lost Elle once. Her father won’t support her with the custody battle if she decided to divorce her husband and thats why she can’t leave right away. At least right now, she know what to expect and tried her best to protect her child the way she can.
She’s severely abused and depressed before she got married with her husband in her past life. Plus her only child dont even recognize her. That, to a mother is a devastating blow. She’s trying her best to change. She doesnt magically become strong hearted because its her and her child’s life on the line. This is not like other manhwas that the FL reincarnated or went back to their past life and changed personality quickly. The other FL’s dont have anything to lose. She, on the other hand, have to think about her son.
I mean, if you dont like the FL at all, you might as well stop reading this then.
If you think that she's not improving, not 'develop', then maybe you're looking things the wrong way? Would you want her to just “Aight, I just died and went back in time, should i conquer the world after killing my family and husband?" That's really impulsive and reckless, and you have to remember she's pregnant.
Yeah. Especially, when they make it look like it's something easy to do and they would've compared with what they could've done. And sometimes, they try to undervalue your experience and how you reacted, saying that they also went through the same shit but they did things differently, and somehow make you feel bad because you didn't do the same. And you just want to just hit your head in the wall for forcing yourself to open up then getting humiliated and judged in return.
It just shows you that there are certain people who's either privileged, insensitive, unaware, or simply naive. People react to things differently. Seeing how they insult and blame Reina, a very damaged person, is deeply upsetting. Reina, in her first life, cowered in fear and she was passive. She didn't think that she can do anything about her situation, she didn't really have any motivation. Until her son. She decided to try and change for her son. Her strong resolve gradually building her confidence as the chapter goes by. And if that's not character development, then istg Hinata Shoyo's hair is actually green not orange.
she won't die, she will take some of his money and buy another house if she has enough brain. and take care of her child, meet new people, grow out of her trauma slowly and come back a better person by herself. she does not need the duke to grow, the opposite it will be better for her story-wise to grow as a person with her own power.
in my post, I actually listed everything she did ever since she comes back to life. and everything she did differently and did the same as her first life. guess what she did more in her second life? I let you guess. it isn't her fault, by the way, it is the story/plot fault if anything that support this massage "you can't grow without a man"
(But first, I just gotta say that although, yes, there are readers who hates the ml regardless of his reasons/story, but don't lump them, and get upset, with the readers who simply wanted ML to grow some balls, or find them. Or those who wants to question why he won't go to FL and try to explain things to her now, and why he hasn't given her a proper apology, more so now that we know that he's assuming she also went back in time. I mean, you really can't expect many, many people to have the same mindset and reasoning. Just like in Abandoned Empress, some people support the ship but some don't.)
Anyway, to those who blames the FL for what happened to her, please pick up a psychology book and hit your head with— read it please, and try to thoroughly comprehend it. Or Google. See how traumas, what events, what mindset forced into her, what type of abuse she suffered, affected her personality before calling her weak and a pushover, you privileged twat. This isn't something people should be divided on.
“She could've done this, done that.” The girl is suffering from low self-esteem, among everything else...and you expect her to just suddenly stand up for herself in that state? When she went back in time, she didn't just magically/instantly changed to a tough mama. But it was realizing that she died with her son not recognizing her, the anger deep within her, her mother instincts, and her survival instincts, that caused her to toughen up and try to improve herself so she and her child can be happy in this new life.
Anyway, yeah. Ta-ta! (づ ̄ ³ ̄)づ