Category | Concept | Definitions |
Core Category: Social exclusion | ||
People do not understand me | Seems like her husband is boasting to other people | He seems like an ideal husband because disability characteristics are difficult to recognize by other following only a short contact |
It is difficult for other people to understand | The state of the husband in the family is not understood and the wife seems to be exaggerating | |
Her relatives do not understand | Relatives believe the family is not functioning because the wife’s efforts are insufficient | |
Counselor does not understand | Even if the wife consulted a counselor, the counselor may not understand her husband’s condition and her circumstances | |
Her friends do not understand | Even if the wife talks to friends, they do not understand her husband and they cannot understand her real point | |
Being blamed for not living up to the wife’s role | Own responsibility | It is the wife’s responsibility to suffer because she chose the husband |
Blame for the wife who does not play the wife’s role | The wife is not playing her role so she is blamed for her family not doing well | |
Blamed as selfish | The wife feels a sense of incompatibility with her husband because she is expecting too much; she blames herself for being selfish | |
Core Category: Social inclusion | ||
Finding peace of mind | Being devoted to parenting | Putting full effort into child rearing, not thinking only about the husband |
Being devoted to social activities | Turning attention to social activities, not thinking only about the husband | |
Studying counseling | Learning counseling for self-healing | |
Studying folk medicine | From experiences that medical specialists cannot understand, studying folk medicine | |
Being saved by empathy from other people | Saved by friends who understand the situation | The wife feels saved by talking to someone who sympathizes with her closely |
Saved by experts who understand the situation | The wife feels saved by an expert who recognizes and accepts her |