Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6905051-20131203105732/@comment-2111018-20140521000638

Applegirl wrote: ^^ I agree completely with your thoughts. I'm not adopted, but I can see that maternal instinct extends past being blood related or not. Regina *is* Henry's mother. She adopted him and named him and raised him as her own. She basically loved him almost as if she gave birth to him herself. So while they are not biologically related, the familial connection extends deeper than just genetics. I do think Regina wanted to drive Emma away as fast as possible because she feared Emma's title as Henry's birth mother would be enough to lose him. I believe Regina's protectiveness of Henry, in which she basically told Emma to gtfo from Storybrooke (at the end of Pilot) caused Emma herself to perceive, based on her own growing personal dislike of Regina, that Henry wasn't loved by his adoptive mother and in turn caused her to stay in town for a week. Which made things more complicated. I take offence to the 'loved him almost as if she'd given birth to him' nonsense. My mom didn't give birth to me, but I know she loves me and would go to the ends of the earth for me, even though she didn't carry me in her stomach for nine months. Adoption, birth, both can forge an unbreakable bond. I know that it doesn't matter that I'm not biological, because my mother loves me as much as she would any kid that came out of her. I have no doubt that Regina loves Henry as much as Emma does, blood or no blood.