He continued, “I said, ‘I will take responsibility for my mother’s illness,’ but when it comes to home care for patients, everyone is unhappy. Because I am the only one who can control this person. After two years of this life (caregiving), I finally concluded that it was my greed. I felt like I was making the rest of the family suffer because of my greed and not wanting to be that person’s sorry daughter, so I thought we needed to separate space for each other. Wouldn’t living apart be a way to stay together as a family longer?
Ahn Seon-young also said, “Because we are apart, we contact each other every day,” and added, “There were times when the three of us were together, the best and closest in the world.”