I saw this one Ranisha, and I’ve missed replying to some things further up the chain.
I hope that things do not get spoiled either, because I feel it has more impact. Even though we do it to ourselves to speculate,react based on incomplete information it is still nice to be caught off guard with SF as it is closer to how I think Neal feels to Emma. He just surprises her but it is generally positive, and they work through the bits that are not. He apologizes, and listens, perhaps internalizes it, she gets angry, vents but lets things go. They compliment each other because their fights really did not escalate as out of control as they could if they understood and cared about each other less. I don’t feel they have a toxic vibe to them where every conversation leaves one or the other hurt or annoyed in some way. Yes they have had emotional, angst filled things to discuss but there are hints that if they could get through the atermath of their fairytale and self-doubt , problems their dynamic together would be more lighthearted and supportive in general.
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass