It seems Weng Hong has quite the unconventional living situation with her husband. In a recent clip on the social media platform Xiaohongshu, the 56-year-old veteran actress and former beauty queen shared “after 3 years of separation, do I regret it?” Weng Hong says that although they’ve been separated for three years, their relationship hasn’t been affected negatively.
Separated or Living Separately?
“My husband and I started to separate in 2022. Crystal (their 18-year-old daughter) is going to study abroad, and my hubby also has overseas business to handle. Due to my work, I too often need to travel to different cities so we had a chat about it and reached a consensus that at least one of us should be with Crystal. That way I’ll be more at ease as I go to work, Crystal also has company and feels safe whilst my husband finds his own rhythm.”
She added that her family though everyone being in different places and in a foreign country would affect their relationship. But she says it wasn’t the case at all. “After my husband and I separated, our relationship remained unaffected. On the contrary, it was better. It proved the saying that a short separation is better than a new marriage and that distance makes the heart grow fonder.”
Not gonna lie, I was initially just as confused as everybody by their situation. But I reckon she was talking about their living situation and how they’d been living separately, not divorcing as many had assumed. In fact many Netizens pointed out that Weng Hong and her husband were just living apart and not really separated. Someone pointed out that “separation means you don’t like each other and you’re getting a divorce” whilst another said their situation might be typical for rich people, but ordinary folks would just get divorced after living separately for a long time. “This is not called a separation, it’s called living apart”. Meanwhile another commenter groused at how celebs liked to use words as click bait to attract attention.
Photo: Weng Hong / Weibo
Kai
Yeah, just not living in the same house like millions of other ordinary households where one parent or both parents work in other locations and only reunite once or twice a year for the lower income group and maybe every school holiday season too for the more financially fortunate ones. There are also millions of other households where one parent follows the children overseas to look after them and one parent stay behind to earn the money.