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The Architecture of Intimacy in the Apocalypse: Trauma, Proximity, and the Evolution of Romance in Sweet Home

The central conceit of Sweet Home is that desire—specifically, unmanageable or selfish desire—triggers monsterization. However, the series complicates this: romantic love is a desire for another , which inherently challenges pure self-interest. We apply attachment theory (Bowlby) and Levinasian ethics (the face of the Other as the call to responsibility) to argue that romantic bonds in the narrative are the only desires that resist the monster’s curse. While the cursed desire to “become free” or “revenge” isolates, the desire to protect, hold, or be seen by another integrates. Sweet Home - My Sexy Roommates -v1.02- -CODEPINK-

In dismantling society, Sweet Home rebuilds the smallest unit of human connection: the dyad. The series concludes (Season 2 finale) not with a romantic consummation but with Hyun-soo walking toward Eun-yoo’s voice, still monstrous, still human. This paper concludes that the romantic storylines in Sweet Home are not subplots but the narrative’s central argument: desire does not damn us—desire for the self alone does. To love another, in full sight of their flaws and your own, is the most radical act of resistance against the monster within. The residents of Green Home, through their flawed, non-traditional, and often tragic romances, teach us that intimacy is not a luxury of peacetime but the very architecture of survival. The Architecture of Intimacy in the Apocalypse: Trauma,