Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-34563899-20180202235154/@comment-34563899-20180204135429

Aine1989 wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Aine1989 wrote: Tysonjackson wrote:

1. That Milah wasn’t in the wrong. She was a horrible wife to him when he seemed to very much love her. But since some people don’t see that as a problem, let’s ignore that little piece: She left her son!! She abandoned this kid and her husband to go be with some pirates. Why wouldn’t Rumple be angry?

​​​​​The problem here is everyone is expecting Milah to just put up with her situation with a smile. If your husband had made you and your family into social pariahs and knew how miserable you were but refused to so much as negotiate with you, would you not be angry?

Sure, she can be angry, but at the end of the day, she did abandon Bae, her young child. Even if she is mad at Rumple, did Bae deserve for her to leave him?

I am not saying her leaving Bae was okay (although Rumple was really not in the position to throw stones here). But Rumple neglected her and pushed her to the point of depression and she had to leave for her own mental health. So she left Bae with who she thought to be a capble parent while she left snd had talked about coming back for him when he was old enough.

She did not handle her situation perfectly, and she made a mistake, but she did not abuse Rumple, he abused her.

Here's a thought; how about we stop reducing women to ​just mothers and start seeing them as multi-dimensional people?

Rumple did not neglect her. We have the scene in 5x11 where Rumple tries to make things better for her.

Milah was very abusive to Rumple:

-When Rumple ran off from the ogres war and told Milah he left because the seer told him he would've died if he fought Milah's like "well you should've stayed and died then!". - She also mocked him for being a coward and for running off from the ogres war. - Heck Rumple says to her in 2x04 "you dont really wish I'd died during the ogre wars do you?", meaning that Milah had told him she wished he had died during the ogres war.

There we go. Milah abused Rumple, not the other way around.