Everything About My Wife ending explained: Closure, heartbreak and a quiet new beginning

Everything About My Wife, the latest Filipino rom-com, will make you squirm, sigh, maybe cry a little, and definitely scream “what the hell was that plan?!” into the void. Directed by Real S. Florido, this 2025 Filipino adaptation of the hit Korean film takes a wild premise and spins it into something unexpectedly tender, deeply painful, and honestly, kind of genius. We meet Dom, played by Dennis Trillo, a man so conflict-avoidant he outsources his own breakup. His brilliant idea? Hire Miguel, played by Sam Milby, a smooth-talking seducer, to woo his wife Imo, played by Jennylyn Mercado, and give her a reason to leave him.

Released in theaters earlier this year and now quietly wrecking viewers on Netflix, Everything About My Wife walks a fine line between absurdity and aching realism. It’s part satire and part therapy session.

We're diving deep into the film’s gut-punch ending—why Dom’s plan backfires spectacularly and how Imo’s final choice flips the entire genre on its head. Here's everything you need to know about Everything About My Wife's ending and where it leaves all the characters.

What is Everything About My Wife about?

Everything About My Wife walks in dressed like a rom-com but sits you down for something way messier. On the surface, the plot is just a husband bored in marriage, a wife who’s “too much,” and a plot to have someone else seduce her so he can bow out guilt-free. But beneath that chaos? A story about emotional cowardice, rediscovery, and the quiet, slow death of connection.

Dom, played by Dennis Trillo, is over it. Not his wife, Imo, played by Jennylyn Mercado, exactly, but the noise, the nitpicking, and the weight of her presence in a life that’s dulled out. Does he try talking to her? No. This man decides the solution is to hire a smooth-talking ex-womanizer named Miguel, played by Sam Milby, to seduce her. Make her fall in love. Make her leave him. Problem solved. Except for the plot twist: everyone catches feelings they weren’t supposed to.

Miguel starts seeing the woman behind the sharp tongue. Dom starts realizing what he never really looked at. And Imo? She begins to remember who she was before she became just someone’s wife. Meanwhile, Miguel isn’t your average seducer. He’s emotionally tired, casually charming, and slowly entangled. There’s even a chess match scene between the two men where they literally discuss her like she’s some pawn in their emotional checkmate.

Real Florido directs this Filipino remake of the 2008 Argentinian film Un Novio Para Mi Mujer but leans more into the 2012 Korean version's emotional depth. He dives headfirst into a marriage that’s legally permanent but emotionally cracked. Throughout the film, the premise leans into the emotionally cracked marriage and the subtle attempts to fix, escape, and repaint it, all to no avail. Despite the strained atmosphere, Everything About My Wife ends on a more positive note that brings peace to the characters.

How does Everything About My Wife end?

The ending of Everything About My Wife is quiet, messy, emotional, and honestly, kind of beautiful in its own way. After all the drama, the cheating, the emotional distance, and the elaborate plan Dom came up with to push his wife away, we finally see Imo taking control of her own story.

She confesses to Miguel, the man Dom had hired to seduce her, that she had started feeling something for him. But instead of falling into another relationship, she catches herself. She realizes it’s unfair—not just to Dom or Miguel, but for her. She’s been used, misunderstood, and pushed around by the men in her life, and in that moment, she sees it clearly. She thanks Miguel, but not because she loves him. She thanks him for reminding her who she is and helping her feel alive again, even if just briefly.

She leaves. She goes back to her grandmother’s house, exhausted and in tears. In this quiet space, we see a real moment of healing. She asks her grandmother whether forgiveness is even possible after everything. And her grandmother, wise and a little cheeky, says what many married people know but don’t always say out loud: marriage is hard. No couple is happy all the time. Love doesn’t come without disappointment.

Meanwhile, Dom is being set up with a new woman by his mother, but he doesn’t take the bait. For once, he stops pretending and tells her the truth: he still loves Imo. He stands up for her. He’s not over her, not even close. She's still his wife.

Then he shows up at the grandmother’s house. He apologizes. So does she. They both cry. They both admit they messed up. Imo tells him she still loves him, but that’s not enough. He asks her if they can get back together. She says getting back together would just be a temporary fix, like slapping a Band-Aid on something deeper. She gives him back the ring. And she walks away.

Do Imo and Dom get back together?

Imo and Dom don't exactly have a traditional happy ending, but in their own ways, the ending makes absolute sense. Cut to a year later, they’re getting divorced. During a break in the proceedings, they sit down for lunch. They talk about their lives and careers. Dom asks her if she forgives him. She says yes. Then he asks if she still loves him. She doesn’t answer. And she doesn’t need to.

They both sit there, not picking up their lawyers’ calls, just looking at the sky, remembering, reconnecting. They reminisce about their dreams and the things they said to each other. They remember all the happy moments that led them to the strained phase they're in now. In a final gesture, they both look at each other, smiling, having a moment to themselves.

Everything About My Wife ends there, no grand gestures, no big declarations. Just two people, older and changed, standing across from each other. It doesn’t say if they get back together, but it doesn’t really need to. They finally see each other, and maybe that’s the point. The final scene is an ambiguous way for the film to hint at a new beginning between them. Maybe for once, Dom would take the step himself to really know everything about his wife.

Everything About My Wife is available to stream on Netflix.