Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-68.125.32.224-20130312042332/@comment-68.164.125.128-20130414200113

Let's get this out here; Rumple did love Cora, Cora loved Rumple once upon a time. You can love someone and have a child with someone even if that person is not your True Love. Here is not the best example but I cannot think of another one so here it is; Say you are in high school. You have a boy/girlfriend. You love them in some intimate way. You break up in college. At your high school reunion of 25 years you are happily married. That does not change the fact that you loved that person once. You realise that your spouse is something different and better, but it does not change the fact you loved your ex once.

True love is the purest form of love there is. That other person can do almost anything and you would still love them in some form. Parent-child relationships are a perfect example. If your child did something, like steal and get arrested, you would still love them. Disappointed in them, but still love them. Same with multiple True Loves, parent-child relationships are perfect examples. You can have multiple children and still love all of them. You could have a spouse and children and love all of them. Emma broke Henry's curse, but she can still find a True Love in the form of a dating relationship. Rumple loved his son and Belle almost broke his curse. Cora and Rumple may have loved, but it was not True Love hence why they could kiss in FTL and not have to worry about his curse.

I will reference an episode here. Charming kissed Snow to try to get her to remember him and it did not work. She promptly punched the stranger that had kissed her and tied him up. Jiminy Cricket posed the question to Charming, "How can she remember who you are if she does not remember who she is?" Belle does not remember herself, how can she remember Rumple? He needs to remind her of who she is before she can love him again.

Sorry it was long, wanted to cover all of the bases.