Does anyone else have someone who is nasty while claiming to want to apologize? Like theres no real pretense of wanting to apologize but rather while saying they want to apologize they're screaming at you, trying to make you ashamed of yourself and if you aren't they get madder?
Cinderella could learn a lesson from Cora.
So his father told Cora how unworthy and what a loser she was because she was a Miller's daughter...
...but he didn't treat his son lovingly. He in fact says his son in his opinion is unlovable.
But we all see how kind and caring he is toward Regina. I'd imagine he'd be afraid to stand up to his wife but he wasn't like his father. He cared about Regina. And unlike his father, he didn't try to sell Regina.
Henry's father made Cora the woman she was with his forcing her to apologize ON HER KNEES then advising her to marry the son he thought so little of because to him "love is weakness"...actually to him it was worthless.
But Henry's father didn't make Henry the man he was. He became the loving parent Regina was lucky to have.
Regina became the kind of mother Cora was and had to rise above those instincts to be better for Henry.
Her father was just naturally loving.
It's annoying every time Emma was miffed at him about something else, he went straight to "You're just mad because you're jealous of Tamara "
So he got judgmental in the millers daughter episode because she was using magic for a protection spell and she said "You don't get to judge me for surprises, Mr. Son-of-Rumplestiltskin!"
He immediately says "okay I get it you're jealous of Tamara."
And he constantly does that until he discovers SURPRISE! This girl he knew probably 2 weeks before proposing (they met shortly before August arrived in SB) was playing him.
If I were Emma even still loving him couldn't make up for him always accusing her of being jealous when she's discussing something else with him. I wouldn't be able to forgive him for that.
I wonder what a psychiatrist would say about a dude who constantly accuses his ex of being jealous when she's not throwing things at him and screaming "you betrayed me!" Only a man full of himself or projecting would accuse Emma of jealousy in these moments. Wishful thinking?
I actually think the real reason for this was writers wanted to put thoughts in the viewers' heads but if this is supposed to be how real Neal would act, he has a problem. One he's not addressing with his KISSYFACE I LOVE YOU TAMARA!