Pragmatically done, True To Love traces modern-day romantic relationship concerns with an open mind and maturity.
There are feelings, unsaid words and regrets that often got lost in translation when it comes to the language of love.
- Main Leads: Yoo In Na | Yoon Hyun Min | Joo Sang Wook | Sojin | Hwang Chan Sung | Koo Jun Hoe | Kim Ye Ji
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Episode Recaps: 01 & 02 | 03 & 04 | 05 & 06 | 07 & 08 | 09 & 10 | 11 & 12 | Final Week + Series Review |
True To Love Final Week Highlights
Unfortunately, uJ-wan’s disappointing move to reunite with Bora led to Su-hyeok’s indecisiveness.
Albeit Bora’s heartfelt confession, Su-hyeok remains stuggling to express his real feelings.
Meanwhile, Yoo-jung inadvertently hears Jin-woo’s love confession which made her decide not to doubt the meaning of the marriage she built with him.
Bo-mi and Jin-ho find out they are pregnant. Inevitably, Bora’s worry subsides and lets the two work on how they will navigate a family set for them.
Persistently wanting to win Bora back, Ju-wan invited her for dinner and finally makes a sweet marriage proposal.
Su-hyeok who read the final draft of Bora’s book musters his strength to give it a shot and impeccably arrives on time to escort her away from her hopeless ex-lover.
Making a sloppy love declaration, he still needed Bora’s guidance to say how he feels. Nevertheless, she accepts the maximum extent of his love expression.
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True To Love Plot Recap
Love dating coach Bora soars high with her make-sense commentaries on relationships. Looking forward to her expected end-game with her long-time lover, she got a disappointing surprise when she realized her boyfriend cheated on her.
What’s worse is that she can’t apply all the advice she previously gave to herself. Struggling with her painful reality, she added another mess by sharing her plight at a fashion magazine party that she was signed to endorse.
As she navigates going through the stages of a broken heart, Su-hyeok a publishing planner and editor finds himself being by her side in her most humiliating and depressing moments.
Interestingly, he also came from a painful breakup because of his inability to verbally express love to his former lover who grew tired of his non-expressive love language.
Little by little, Bora and Su-hyeok find comfort in each other and accidentally share a kiss.
That kiss spurs confusion which snowballed into a mutual affirmation of growing feelings. However, they go back and forth about whether the line between friendship and love is worth crossing.
True To Love Series Highlights
A Discerning Look At Different Stages of Romantic Commitments
Richly narrating the diverse pictures and scenarios of committing to a relationship, True To Love covers the uncertainty and apprehensions that can happen to anyone.
From the story of Bomi and Jin-ho, we got the message of how young people who have yet to experience the harsh realities of life, can still work on building a family while figuring out how to navigate their life together.
Yoo-jung and Jin-woo teach about the patience required in marriage when it reached a complacent point, but the love is still there.
Sang-jin’s featured love stories underline the regrets of divorce stories that were not properly communicated as well as giving a chance for love to happen again without involving societal opinions, but just following the emotion of love as it is.
A Pragmatic Representation of Breaking Up, Moving On and Accepting New Love
Highlighted keenly in True To Love is how men and women have different ways of seeking love validation. As pointed out by Bora, Yuri will never know the effort Su-hyeok made for her because women need to hear it directly it from their men. By nature, women are expressive and men are the opposite.
There was a point when we understood Yuri’s sentiment, but the true picture of her committing to another person simultaneously invalidates her pain.
Sang-jin and Su-jin’s situation further attests to this truth. In marriage, when one side is having an extreme hardship that he or she can’t tell the partner, it all boils down to how relationships require bravery to confess ugly truths and acceptance of what response you can receive.
True To Love Series Musings
Communicating is easier said than done in whatever stage of romantic relationship we go through – is the biggest takeaway of True To Love.
In relationships where intimacy is defined with actions and not verbal affirmations, there’s always a chance the relationship would falter because of blatant blurs that can actually be verbalized in the first place.
Interestingly, building a romantic connection between Bora and Su-hyeok reasonably asserts the pragmatic truth of how two people from failed relationships cruise a newfound love. That fostering attachment does not depend on time but on shared trust and honest conversations.
Emphasizing the last impression given by an ex-lover after the breakup matters, Bora uniquely comes up with her love recovery plan by rewriting her ex-lover’s desperate impression of her to a sensible, mature woman.
Harping on the importance of a “balanced relationship” as well as “defining what kind of romantic relationship” you share with someone; the series provided a message to always choose to love ourselves more so we can fairly give love to another person without overexerting their efforts.
In a similar context, an irresolute approach to committing to a relationship like believing that actions speak louder than words apparently do not work in all situations. There are relationships that need to be defined clearly for both sides to understand.
True To Love paid attention to how embracing the pain after a breakup is a prerequisite to fully emancipating someone from the agony.
It also shows that fortitude in any undertaking requires personal commitment and effort.
Brimming with clever commentaries about love and relationship, the series is a blend of romance K-Drama for those who prefer rational love stories.
If you are fragile with current love woes, the series can work as a counselor for you. The lines are great and seemingly conceived from a billion broken-hearted people interview. Just a rough estimate, to be honest.
Although there were noticeable wobbly story fillers in the final week, the foundation laid for the narrative makes it forgivable.
A wide range of viewers can also resonate with the featured love stories that cover the young and exploring; the pained but searching; and the betrayed but hopeful.
Learn love and relationship lessons in True To Love. International fans can watch it on Prime Video.
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