Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11058666-20141228031222/@comment-26033121-20150122174853

Being a hopeless romantic myself, yes, I want them to get back together, and I think they will get back together at some point since they are Beauty and the Beast. I can't blame Belle for making Rumple leave Storybrooke. He did lie to her, and he did tell her that the gauntlet led to someone's weakness, which is usually their true love. However, in Rumplestiltskin's case power is a true love of weakness because he's cursed. On the other hand, Belle is a true love that gives him strength to be a better person. I think in her anger (what girl wouldn't be angry?) Belle forgot about those things. I think that Rumple genuinely was trying to change for the better in season three for awhile, but then he relapsed after he realized that making the heroic choice only brought him back misery when Bae died trying to resurrect him, and then Zelena trapped him in a cage.