"Got sick waiting for her husband"... Wife's reason for shopping addiction [Lee Ho-seon Counseling Center]

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analyzed the psychology of loneliness hidden behind excessive shopping.

In the tvN STORY variety program 'Lee Ho-seon Counseling Center' broadcast on the 9th, a story was revealed about the psychology of people who fill their emptiness with shopping.

On this day, introduced a real counseling case, saying, "Among the counseling clients, there was someone whose husband was on business trips four days a week and worked overtime three days a week."

Continuing, he explained, "The wife loved her husband so much that she waited for him at home all day long. That waiting became a job and eventually turned into an illness."

said, "The wife constantly shopped to fill her sense of emptiness," and added, "She even gave the items she bought to housekeepers without using them."

He then analyzed, "Those items were not even for herself. There was meaning in simply putting her empty feelings into the shopping cart." He further explained, "Shopping was not the goal; it was an action to temporarily soothe loneliness and emptiness," drawing attention.

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