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Rubelle wrote: ChocolatEyes613 wrote: Rubelle wrote: finally happy??

She deserves every bit of what she is getting from henry too. her "love" for henry was  possessiveness. She made others think henry was mentally sick, she made it so that no one believed him, she forced him to come to her by torturing townspeople.

And Henry is not her son and he would have been raised by his mother, loved by his grandparents but it did not happen because of circumstances of her doing. So, adoptive parents are not "real" parents?

Sorry to say.... but Mary Margaret said, that no one would have believed Henry. She was 100% correct. Henry's stories, while they were true, were illogical. To the average adult; fairytales just that, fairytales. Did I say that? Why r you twisting my words?

Which adoptive mother gets a child by cursing his family may I know? And how conflicted would that child feel when he finds that out?

Its not about real or adoptive parent, its more about all the evils Regina did that formed the course of the events and her incapability to love her child.

Her feelings for him were too much self gratification, much like her own "real" mother had for her.

Regina knew Henry was telling the truth. So its not no one  would have believed him. But for her own purposes she chose to  act like Henry was talking illogical nonsense and made him see a shrink. She was not average adult, she knew very well they happened and yet she tried her best to subdue him and his freedom of thought. Regina didn't get Henry by cursing his family, Emma gave him up for adoption because she couldn't take care of him, that's not on Regina but on August and Neal, they're the reason Emma gave him up, Regina never planned to adopt Henry when she cast the curse, even more if she had never done it Henry wouldn't even exist.

How do you know she doesn't love her child? How do you know how she feels? The writers have stated time and time again that Regina DOES LOVE Henry, it's your assumption that she doesn't. They've also stated Henry didn't grow up knowing time wasn't passing, he didn't go to therapy for that reason, he wasn't aware of the curse until 1 month before Emma came to Storybrooke, if he went to therapy it was probably due to the fact that he was adopted and knowing someone gave him up, like MM said in the first episode he was having trouble with that, Archie did say that he was having problems with his mom because she was trying to connect with him seems like he was having adoption related problems.

Also it seems like they used to have a good relationship according to that picture in his bedroom where he's smiling happily as Regina hugs him, and that 'For Mommy' thing.

Once Emma arrived in Storybrooke that's when the reason for his therapy with Archie changed, she did lie to him and that was very bad but it's not to convince him or other people that he was crazy, it wasn't her plan that he felt that way, she was trying to make him doubt his believe in the curse and move on from that, she didn't do it to make others doubt him because nobody would believe something like that anyway, it wasn't about others or about subduing Henry, it was about getting him to dismiss his believe in the curse. And once we actually put ourselves in Regina's position, what would we have done? Telling Henry that yes the curse was real and she was the EQ wouldn't have really accomplished anything, Henry would have rejected her even more strongly now knowing the truth and accuse her to others saying she admitted the curse is real and they're fairytale characters, this would have brought her even more trouble because people would've believed she was the one who was crazy and they'd have taken Henry away from her and probably institutionalized her, even if that didn't happen she'd have lost Henry anyway. So it was a very complicated situation, I'm not saying that lying to him wasn't wrong but once you think it through it wasn't as if she had a lot of choices.

On a side note, DON'T EVER SAY Regina deserved what happened to her, it was something horrible, to kill her own mother while thinking she was doing the right thing for her, what Snow did was very very wrong taking advantage of her intimate knowledge of Regina's emotional state and necessity for love, and I'm happy she's feeling guilty because that means she understands how deeply wrong her actions had been, it means she acknowledges her terrible mistake. What I'm not so thrilled about is the fandom's reaction to it, I can't believe there're people saying she 'deserves it' or that 'she had it coming' no one should have to go through that no matter what they did and saying things like that make me doubt the fandom is getting the idea, not only that, THEY'RE BECOMING COLD AND UNEMPATHETIC and is kind of worrisome.