Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20171111015844/@comment-25375217-20171111182410

Emillian Swanones wrote: The scene in which Henry said that Regina was the first person to love him made me really angry. The show made it very clear that Emma was the first one to love him and ignoring that was disrespectful to both Emma and the Swan Beliver relationship which was the central relationship in the show. Henry’s cursed memories are that he was born in prison and that he grew up in the system. That connection he has with Emma was almost enough to reduce my anger at the “Regina was the first person to love Henry” scene, key word being almost. But thank you show for writing that, it was needed. I like Emma as much as the next guy, but you have to look at it from Henry's point of view: he was given up. Regardless of Emma's intentions and what happened later, this is not how you make a child feel loved, and even Emma treated that as a mistake later in the series (particularly once she had memories of not giving him up). Regina was the first person to show him love and to make him feel loved, even if he didn't realize it at first.