Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-23906605-20131017110136/@comment-22525977-20131028195632

It's still Neal acting based on what he thinks is best for Emma without consulting her, which is all kinds of skeevy. And what he thought was best was clearing off to a different country, leaving her to go to jail for the crime he committed, and then not bothering to check in on her at all for the next decade.

Sure, he ostensibly did it because he wanted her to live her *destiny* by breaking this curse, but he had no idea that her going to jail would lead to the chain of events that brought her to Storybrooke; she might just have easily entered a downward spiral and ended up OD'ing in a gutter somewhere.

How on earth would it be selfish of him to involve Emma in a conversation about her future?