I do agree with that. Belle’s being written as a very cliche hysterical pregnant woman who uses her love as a weapon and bargaining tool. “Do what I want and I’ll love you. If you don’t behave in a manner I like, then I take my love away!”
Not only take my love away but take your kid away and you will never get to see him. That is a problem. And to say that she is being written as a very cliche hysterical pregnant woman discounts all the problems of last season when she did the exact same thing. I love you, I hate you. We can be together, I don’t want you. Belle has been emotionally tormenting Rumple since he woke up from the coma, and he has been taking it. Sounds like he is the victim when you put it that way.
I’m sorry, but no.
I don’t think Belle is being in any way abusive. She is setting boundaries to protect her son and herself from an abusive man.
Boundaries can also contain conditions, and her conditions are perfectly normal and reasonable. At least by saying ”if you do x then you can have a relationship with your son and maybe me too” she is giving him a chance. If she said, ”I don’t care if you change, from now on you can’t see your son or me” then that would be less reasonable because she would be giving him NO chance.
Going by your logic, every time we lock up a criminal (and crime doesn’t have to be just actions, it can be emotional abuse, too) or tell them that they are free but on certain conditions, or that they will be but on a restraining order, then the law is being abusive!!!
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