Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11058666-20141228031222/@comment-25926288-20151003020403

It's not really that. It's that Belle saw both good and bad, but schoose to see the good over the bad. That's romantic, but also naive of her at the start.

In the EF, there were fledgling emotions that were quickly shut down and separated. The real issue is what followed. It was hilarious that after Belle leaves on bad terms with Rumple, she gets imprisoned for 30 something years and then in season 2, she goes on about how she thought he changed......Um, she was there when he said he brought back magic for power. I think Belle clearly must have suffered some head trauma (or the writers forgot). Belle was trying to bring out the good in Rumple in season 2 which was fine by me, but then before that could finish she had amnsia, he regresssed, she returned and he left to die. Then he was dead, ressurected, enslaved, and then eventually with her. They pretty much have had little time for a relationship which would also explain why it ended poorly. Right after that he marries her and she accepts when they only had start building a foundation and it was obviously too quick.

Then eventually, after being with him for a time that she was fooling herself.