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Eskaver wrote: Leopold wasn't bad, just naive.

Don't hate on the guy when we've seen so little of him. I see him as the busy guy that hires a nany while he's busy and when he returns home, he spends the time with Snow. I don't think Leopold knew, he could just hire someone rather than marry them, but I doubt anyone would work for him as a babysitter. I mean he cearly had the search the land for responses.

Plus, if the baby sitter got married, then the'd be stuck at home dealing with their own family issues. He wanted a wife and mother for Snow. If he just wanted a nanny, that's what Johanna was for.

And what little we saw of him, he ignored Regina for Snow, he wanted the man she claimed to love dead despite not loving her (and the fact that royalty very commonly had discreet extramarital affairs) and he forbade her from seeing her father, which had no logical explanation in-episode. He basically wanted a trophy wife that would love his kid unconditionally but with nothing in return.