Category	Concept	Definitions
Filled with a sense of loneliness	Feeling of a glass partition	Even though the wife and husband live together, they feel like they are separated by glass
	Emotionally distant	The wife feels loneliness and conflict because of the things she wants to say are not conveyed
	Serious holdout	Even if the wife is in trouble, her husband will not cooperate with her
Repressed emotion	Kill emotions	When the wife does not agree with her husband in her daily life, she endures and adapts to her husband
	Ignore the painful truth	Even if there is something difficult about incompatibility with the husband, the wife endures it alone
	Sacrifices her life	The wife will sacrifice herself to keep her family and work hard to the limit
Spiral of self-doubt	Impossible for husband to understand her feelings	The wife gives up on her husband’s intention to get to know her feelings and stops trying to make herself understood
Spiral of self-doubt	Blaming herself	The wife blames herself because her family does not function well
Anger and anxiety	Misunderstanding that the husband’s behavior is malicious	The wife misunderstands that her husband is being malicious because of his bad behavior
	No cooperation for the family	The husband cannot do any housework, and so the wife does not let him do the housework
	Anxiety about responding to children	The wife feels uneasy about how her the husband’s contact with his children is not like a father’s
Corresponding ingenuity to husband	Exploring ways to convey her thoughts	Because her opinion is not quite transmitted to the husband, the wife explores other ways to convey her feelings
	Explaining using concrete examples or logic	The wife devises ways to convey her meaning to her husband using concrete examples and logic
	Writing on paper and telling	When spoken words do not convey well, the wife write them down on paper to tell him
	Asks her husband what he can do	When the wife asks her husband to do something, she asks that he does jobs one at a time
	Respects the husband’s persistence	The wife will try to respect her husband as much as she can if he is committed to what he cares about
Giving in	Living at her own pace	The wife is exhausted if she is with her husband, so she tries to maintain he own pace for life
	Having no expectations of her husband	The wife does not have excessive expectations of her husband so as to remain calm
	Thinking that is how a man behaves	Because the husband and wife are different, and the wife feels uncomfortable, she thinks that all men are like that