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Haunting from when I was a primary school child, I knew I had a family that greatly loved me. However, due to many factors that I could not understand at that time, my mother and father had to separate, causing me and my siblings to live away from my mother and live with my father and relatives on his side. No matter how big or small my mistakes were, everything would always end with the same question.

It was a simple statement but it made me feel uncomfortable every time I was asked because both sides were the ones who raised me. No matter how I answered, I felt guilty every time. I understood that my relatives wanted me and my siblings to stay at my father's house because they were concerned about my safety and my life. But as time went on, when this kind of thing happened more often, I couldn't help but wonder if those words and actions came out of love or if they just wanted me to do everything they told me to do.

Then when they started talking about it again, I became indifferent and kept thinking to myself, “Here we go again. Hurry up and finish talking so I can do something else.” And when he asked, I answered, “Yes.”

Those things made me understand the importance of the family institution, raising with love, and care, and creating an environment that is conducive to raising a child to grow up healthy and truly happy.