Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-34563899-20180202235154/@comment-1916997-20180204163549

Aine1989 wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Aine1989 wrote: Tysonjackson wrote:

1. That Milah wasn’t in the wrong. She was a horrible wife to him when he seemed to very much love her. But since some people don’t see that as a problem, let’s ignore that little piece: She left her son!! She abandoned this kid and her husband to go be with some pirates. Why wouldn’t Rumple be angry?

​​​​​The problem here is everyone is expecting Milah to just put up with her situation with a smile. If your husband had made you and your family into social pariahs and knew how miserable you were but refused to so much as negotiate with you, would you not be angry?

Sure, she can be angry, but at the end of the day, she did abandon Bae, her young child. Even if she is mad at Rumple, did Bae deserve for her to leave him?

I am not saying her leaving Bae was okay (although Rumple was really not in the position to throw stones here). But Rumple neglected her and pushed her to the point of depression and she had to leave for her own mental health. So she left Bae with who she thought to be a capble parent while she left snd had talked about coming back for him when he was old enough.

She did not handle her situation perfectly, and she made a mistake, but she did not abuse Rumple, he abused her.

Here's a thought; how about we stop reducing women to ​just mothers and start seeing them as multi-dimensional people?

I get your point, but I am of the belief that if you have a child (both the man and the woman), you have a duty to take care of them. Milah ran away from this duty. Furthurmore, she didn't really think Rumple was capable, she was constantly complaining how he couldn't take care of his family. So she left her child with a man who she didn't think was capable for caring for son. That's not being a good mother or a good person.