Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-25926288-20170618042330/@comment-28162607-20170908070109

ArcaneDust17 wrote: @Aine1989 In regards to your rants about Regina, I would just like to point out that from season 2 and onward she constantly does things to make up for all the bad stuff she did. And I would recommend you rewatch the entire show again. Regina DOES apologize to Snow for ruining her life. Several times in fact. Regina also proves that she is willing to sacrifice her own life and her own happiness to save Henry/Emma/Snow/Charming on several occasions. She even apologizes for what she did to Belle. And throughout season 5 and season 6 she displays remorse for the bad stuff she did in the past. Also, there is absolutely no proof that Regina ever "abused" Henry. You are simply rushing to assumptions. If anything Regina proves time after time that she does in fact love Henry. The only reason he was miserable (in season 1) is because (aside from Regina) Henry was the only one who realized Storybrooke is stuck in a time loop. Imagine how you would feel if you knew you were stuck in a time loop. Sure, at the time he didn't realize it was an actual time loop, but he did notice that everything is always the same. Like I said, some of you really need to go and rewatch the entire show. There is a lot of stuff you all seem to be forgetting. Just look at how Cora treated Regina. And what Rumple did to her as well. Cora and Rumple turned Regina into a monster.

Your rants on Rumple I do agree with though. Yes Henry was miserable because he was stuck in a time loop and Regina tried to make him think otherwise (also known as gaslighting, a form of abuse in which the abuser makes the victim question their own sanity). Regina made him think he was crazy. In addition to neglect (see: the first 2 episodes of season 4 which ends in Henry quite literally begging to be let into his own home, season 1 in which she would leave him on his own for hours to go to "Council meetings", season 4 episode 8 when she ignored calls from his grandparents to continue to bang Robin), social isolation (bringing Henry into a town where he was the only one aging and therefore he could not make lifelong friends, making him dependent on her), hurting people he cared about (attempting to put Emma under a Sleeping Curse, killing Graham, torturing David in front of him), using him as a chess piece to hurt Emma and not caring that he got hurt in the process (season 1, episode 2, she orchestrated the situation so that Henry would hear Emma call him crazy), planning to kill everyone he loved and abduct him (season 2b). You're telling me that is not abuse?

And one of the biggest flaws in the show is how they gloss over abuse and promote a "victims should forgive their abusers because THEY'VE CAHNGED" and Rgeina and Henry is a perfect example of that