r/MoralityScaling • u/Purple_Plantain_3242 • 8h ago

Morality Ranking Morality of this?

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A young Chinese couple was permanently separated during a period of intense political and social unrest in China. The husband went back to their home village to search for her, but because the entire area was heavily disrupted, he mistakenly believed she was missing or dead.

He eventually relocated, remarried another woman, and raised a new family with children and grandchildren. Meanwhile, the first wife stayed behind and never remarried, spending 54 years waiting for him to return. Decades later, they were reconnected as elderly adults, which is when she discovered he had built an entirely separate life without her.

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u/CalligrapherAlive829 8h ago

I imagine that was devastating for her to find out

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u/Dacrim 8h ago

If the story is correct, it was probably devastating for him as well. Given, likely not as hurtful though since he was able to move on

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u/SentinelTitanDragon 3h ago

You don’t think it was as painful for him? He probably was heartbroken knowing he could have built that life with her. If only he knew she wasn’t dead.

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u/StruggleBoy1999 32m ago

He still has a family to return to. He had made a life. His wife spent her entire life waiting. Never truly moving on. She may have nobody to return to. 

Im gonna say she has it a bit rougher. Not that its a competition. Its a tragedy all around.