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The most private confession about the truth of married life

If there are 100 people, there are 100 stories.
But if you look closely at those 100 stories, there is a common element that runs through them all.
So people are interested in other people's stories and look at themselves in the light of those stories.


The author, who had only three months from their first meeting to their wedding, was surprised to discover in 2020 that she would be celebrating her 20th wedding anniversary the following year.
And to commemorate him, she decides to write her own wedding story.
About the truth about married life without an inch of embellishment or censorship.

This couple clashes from the first day of their honeymoon.
Because of our ‘incompatibility’ with each other.
The author says that all couples, regardless of their relationship length, will experience this 'incompatibility' and that the process of adapting to and adjusting to this 'incompatibility' is a 'normal' thing that all couples go through.
And just like the 'ordinary life' that people in the world talk about, an ordinary married life is also possible through fierce struggles to cultivate one's character.
But the author who says this also had nothing but reckless passion while in love.
The writer and her husband, who fell in love helplessly and decided to get married, were so plagued by questions from people around them that they ended up creating a diary-like wedding invitation filled with the things people were curious about.
We know how childish people become when they fall in love, how their judgment becomes clouded.
This invitation perfectly captures the image of a man and woman in love and the spirit of the times.
By revealing these traces of the past rather than hiding them, the author shows us the differences between love and marriage, how the times, the world, and ourselves are evolving.


Along with the invitation, the author also shows the times through the prism of 'dividing household chores between couples.'
The author, who claims that 'the division of housework between a couple' is a representative subject of adjustment in married life, has consistently revealed the division of housework between his couple through the first and revised editions of 'On Attitude', and is reporting the trend closely again in 'Ordinary Married Life'.
In addition, this book contains surprisingly honest stories about how she sweetly imagines herself becoming the tragic protagonist of a plane crash whenever her husband goes on a business trip abroad, how she is shocked to find her husband by chance at the subway station as a "street man," and how she loses her sexual desire to her husband who spends all year round in poor clothes.
The heartbreaking and poignant story of a woman willingly rescuing her husband from a horde of middle-aged zombies on Gwanghwamun Street in the middle of the night, and then running back like a yo-yo toward him who was left behind because of her slow pace, makes it impossible to put the book down.

The author also examines various forms of marriage, including contract marriage, polyamory, and polygamy, and argues that marriage should be a symbol of instability.
For those curious about married life and the human relationship between husband and wife, I recommend this book, which is serious yet humorous, weighty yet not heavy.