Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6905051-20131203105732/@comment-24386552-20140502161137

And yet Cora never mentioned her mother, which either indicates that she had an even WORSE experience with her Mom, or her Mom died when she was young and resented that. I also know she resented her father as well, for giving her the undesirable life of a Miller's daughter. Whatever motherhood, or lack thereof Cora endured, rubbed off on her daughters who have managed to have their own awful experiences. It is sad however, that Zelena's adoptive mother had died and so she had to take care of her drunken adoptive father, who didn't give her any love at all. If her adoptive mother lived, her life choices may have been different. She might have even had a love interest (Not just Rumple, if she had any love for him to begin with), and maybe even a child. Also Emma bared as a threat to Regina's curse, which she hadn't thought about her being a threat in 10 years up until the Pilot, which caused her to go off the deep end.