"Newlyweds" episode 586 with MC Hong Van - Quoc Thuan chatting with Nguyen Dinh Tan (36 years old) - Tran Thi Thanh Tu (35 years old). Currently, the couple runs a makeup school in Ho Chi Minh City.
Dinh Tan also runs a dental and beauty salon business and is a content creator. He previously lived in Canada since 2003 and decided to move back to Vietnam permanently after getting married.
The couple met through a mutual friend in 2016. As soon as they had each other's social media accounts, Dinh Tan and Thanh Tu had good feelings for each other.
Dinh Tan said that he returned to Vietnam to meet Thanh Tu to "kill two birds with one stone". He said: "The intention was that year, my daughter would return to marry another friend in Hanoi".
Thanh Tu revealed that while they were getting to know each other, her husband did not tell her that he was engaged to someone else. But at that time, they both had feelings for each other.
After meeting at Da Nang airport (Dinh Tan's hometown), the two stayed there for 1-2 days and then returned to Ho Chi Minh City. The next morning, they traveled to Thailand. While traveling, Dinh Tan thought and felt guilty towards Thanh Tu so he decided to confess everything.
When he returned to Canada, he talked to his parents and apologized for the change. That was because Dinh Tan had found someone he loved and wanted to cancel his previous engagement with the girl. He added that the cancellation of the engagement was not a problem. But his family suspected that he had “returned to Vietnam under a spell” because they suddenly saw their son change after a trip.
In fact, Dinh Tan already had a house and a job in Canada. He expressed his desire to return to Vietnam to live permanently. After that, he sold his house in Canada to his sister. A few months after returning to Vietnam, Dinh Tan and Thanh Tu got married in 2018. The overseas Vietnamese man had a sweet, fairy-tale-like proposal in France that made Thanh Tu extremely emotional.
After getting married, the couple encountered an “incident” that forced them to divorce for a year. Dinh Tan admitted his mistake because he was too liberal. Before coming back to help his wife, Dinh Tan taught brides how to do their hair. His work environment was mostly female. From then on, many bad consequences occurred.
At that time, Thanh Tu had given birth for nearly two years. Her figure was no longer the same as when she was a girl. She also could not balance her emotions. Thanh Tu said that her husband often texted to show concern for the students. When she discovered this, she could not control her emotions.
Besides, the two of them did not share much with each other at that time. One spoke, the other remained silent and did not resolve the issue. Thanh Tu accidentally grabbed her husband's collar in a crowded place. This action unintentionally touched her husband's self-esteem.
The unresolved conflicts from the past exploded at that moment. But Dinh Tan was determined not to divorce, while Thanh Tu felt the opposite.
There was a time when the two did not live together. Dinh Tan opened a drinking place right when the epidemic broke out. Therefore, he could not operate the restaurant, had to pay the rent and had no place to return to. He told his wife: "Honey, let me go home. I have nowhere to go. I will just stay downstairs, let me be close to my children and you, when the epidemic is over, I will go." Those words made Thanh Tu feel sorry and touched. Speaking of this, Dinh Tan could not help but be moved.
The days together afterwards helped them realize their mistakes and change together. Dinh Tan became more moderate, and Thanh Tu learned to share. After that, they got back together.
