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Spilt milk over mom's sorrow and all that but if she was THAT remoresful, how did she even have the guts to go thru the process of dating, lying, and marrying someone else who even had their own kid? It really erases a lot of possible empathy towards a similarly grieving person as much as it makes her remorse self-gratifying while dragging everyone else.
And I could argue that the author did well in using this 3rd pov for Shinwoo to be enlightened that he is also hurting ppl who loves him when he continues to "punish himself" with negative thoughts. Meaning "they have the same self gratifying destructive coping mechanism." However, he was the one abandoned...Shinwoo is the guy who holds on until they walk out of his life... but the mom never took initiative to go back, to actually punish herself by receiving Shinwoo's explicit hatred, to submit herself and apologize face to face. No! She just unironically comforts her guilt by shutting other people, neither confronting her past nor appreciating her present.