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DavidTennantismyAngel wrote: So Belle should get no sympathy for being naïve and taken advantage of? XD

And Rumple would never hurt Belle intentionally. Healing someone and wiping their memory sounds like something Regina would do. I just said he wouldn't hurt Belle.

No, that isn't it. It's the whole, "Fool me, once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on who?" thing. If someone keeps getting taken advantage of and doesn't fight back then  shame on them. You can't have other people always fighting your battle if you keep putting yourself in that situation. Belle did stand up and she deserves her accolades, but if she finds herself back in that same situatiion and she ends up not liking it then it's shame on her. She tried about 4 times in thirty years, I would then be time to stop going back.