Tie Me (K)not (2022)

Both female leads have controlling and verbally abusive mother-in-laws.

Both female leads are cheated on by their husbands during marriage.

One Female Lead is physically abused by her husband. And both female leads are abused mentally by their husbands.

Both female leads try to stay in the marriage, but eventually divorce their husbands.

-both are feminist type dramas that try to give power back to women after years of abuse and financial control by their partners and family.
-both dramas share the similarities of married women who defy societal expectations and divorce their abusive husbands.
-both husbands are serial cheaters who physically abuse the FLs.
-both husbands have bad,enabling mothers who help abuse and torture the FLs.
- both FLs fall in love with a younger man but in Barb Ruk the age-gap is wider while in Tie Me Knot its a few years.
-The major differences is that in BarbRuk the FL is rich and it is the ML who faces financial difficulties while in Tie Me Knot it is the FL who has to start over and ML is rich.
-Another difference is that Tie Me Knot focuses on the romance of the ML/FL while Barb Ruk you barely notice it.

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Both lakorns, the female protagonists are both getting out of a bad marriage (except Mia 2018 has no marital violence) and meet a great guy who helps them gain confidence in themselves.