{"id":4929,"date":"2026-06-23T11:09:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailylifeupdates.com\/?p=4929"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:10:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:10:29","slug":"my-daughter-married-a-korean-man-when-she-was-21-she-hasnt-come-home-in-twelve-years-but-every-year-she","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailylifeupdates.com\/?p=4929","title":{"rendered":"My daughter married a Ko:rean man when she was 21. She hasn\u2019t come home in twelve years, but every year she\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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My name is Theresa, and I am sixty-three years old. I\u2019ve been a widow since I was young, and I raised my only daughter, Mary Lou, entirely on my own. She was smart, sweet, and beautiful. Everyone said she had a great future. And it seemed like she did.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>

At twenty-one, she met Kang Jun, a Ko:re:an man nearly twenty years older than her. I opposed it \u2014 not out of prejudice, but because of the age gap and the distance. But my daughter was stubborn. There was a determination in her eyes that I had no power to change.<\/p>

They married in a simple ceremony. A month later, she left with him for SK. At the airport, she hugged me and cried. I cried too, but in silence. I thought she would return in a few years. She never did. One year passed. Then two. Then five. I stopped asking. Only the money kept coming \u2014 every year, exactly eighty thousand dollars, with a short message: \u201cMom, take good care of yourself. I\u2019m doing well.\u201d That word \u2014 well \u2014 was what worried me most. We had a video call once. She was still beautiful, but her eyes weren\u2019t the same. Always in a hurry. Always distant. I asked why she didn\u2019t come home. She went quiet, then said: \u201cI\u2019m very busy, Mom.\u201d I didn\u2019t ask again. Sometimes, mothers become cowards out of fear of hearing the truth.<\/p>

Time passed. My house improved thanks to the money she sent. Everyone said I was fortunate. But how can you be happy eating alone every day? Every Christmas, I set a place for her. I would cook her favorite stew and cry in silence. Twelve years. It\u2019s too long. Finally, I made a decision: I was going to Korea. I didn\u2019t tell her anything. For a sixty-three-year-old woman who had never left the country, it was madness. But I bought the ticket with trembling hands and went.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My name is Theresa, and I am sixty-three years old. I\u2019ve been a widow since I was young, and I raised my only daughter, Mary Lou, entirely on my own. She was smart, sweet, and beautiful. Everyone said she had a great future. And it seemed like she did. At twenty-one, she met Kang Jun, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/dailylifeupdates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/729579165_1721005409089698_5887660235951164941_n.jpg",1086,1448,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailylifeupdates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/729579165_1721005409089698_5887660235951164941_n-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailylifeupdates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/729579165_1721005409089698_5887660235951164941_n-225x300.jpg",225,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailylifeupdates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/729579165_1721005409089698_5887660235951164941_n-768x1024.jpg",640,853,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailylifeupdates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/729579165_1721005409089698_5887660235951164941_n-768x1024.jpg",640,853,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailylifeupdates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/729579165_1721005409089698_5887660235951164941_n.jpg",1086,1448,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailylifeupdates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/729579165_1721005409089698_5887660235951164941_n.jpg",1086,1448,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Daily Life Updates","author_link":"https:\/\/dailylifeupdates.com\/?author=1"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"My name is Theresa, and I am sixty-three years old. I\u2019ve been a widow since I was young, and I raised my only daughter, Mary Lou, entirely on my own. She was smart, sweet, and beautiful. Everyone said she had a great future. And it seemed like she did. At twenty-one, she met Kang Jun,…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailylifeupdates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailylifeupdates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailylifeupdates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailylifeupdates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailylifeupdates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dailylifeupdates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4934,"href":"https:\/\/dailylifeupdates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions\/4934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailylifeupdates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailylifeupdates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailylifeupdates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailylifeupdates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}