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Well, we can't say she was quick to hate him. She clearly was a bit quick tempered and we don't see her side of the story and what went on. And she wasn't worse than Cora, who literally abandoned her child to die. The episodes were highly sympathetic towards Rumple and Carlyle is a wonderful actor, but what he did was really selfish. He escaped his father's cowardice and went to war despite Milah not wanting him to go. He came back because someone told him something. HE put them in the lowly dregs of poverty and placed on his son what his father did to him, his tarnished reputation. Plus he also injured himself and took on a feminine job, probably putting Milah to try to help with some additional work. She likely left in a spur of the moment activity, and it's not like she controlled when the ship would return to the Frontlands.

The worst anyone can say about her is that she is literally Rumple. She's got a temper like Rumple. She has characteristics of young Rumple. She wants to move where no one knows of Rumple's reputation and look for a better life. She accepted what was given to her for an answer. She's like older Rumple. She, like Rumple, left their child in a spur of the moment action and regretted it. She didn't leave Rumple for a pretty pirate, she left because after years of misery and likely social pressure, she cracked and in a spur of the moment gave in to the desire to leave.

I don't like what Milah did, but she's no worse than Rumple. Some argue these relationships, with Cora and Milah, were more real is because Rumple treats like it is so. He constantly goes on about Belle not seeing him for his true self, how she'll leave him, how she can't ever love him. The others he didn't do that at all.