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Rumpel and Baelfire: Broken family trust

Season 3’s Rumpel is back and the plot thickens as with the rest of the characters. He was on a quest to find his son and redeem himself after abandoning Baelfire, a promise he made himself never to break after experiencing his own father leaving him. After he finally reunited with his son, he felt another chance at life was offered and wanted to redeem the lost time between them. Rumple found Bealfire with the help of Henry, his newly discovered nephew. He however remembers a witch’s prediction that this boy will help him reunite with his son but he will simultaneously be his own demise.

Baelfire is not happy to reunite with his father, having been through his fair share of hardship. He is angry, after all it is a devastating event to presence your own father leaving you in exchange for something else. As a child this is traumatizing and it leaves marks. Baelfire was not open to reconciliation and he was angry. He did not want his father to have closure and reunite with him after apologizing for his mistakes and lost time because he was left for years without closure, alone, wondering why he was abandoned. Why was magic more important than his own son and family?

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Love versus darkness

A significant character in Rumpel’s life, Belle, has been a huge catalyst as she was able to see beyond his darkness and heartless demeanor and was attracted to what she perceived as his good heart underneath. She succeeded in reaching and “deactivating” him with her trust and kindness as Belle was not fearing him and even defied his rules a few times. In season 1, Belle’s love is not enough to help Rumpel bridge over his darkness towards true love;

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Can God destroy relationships?

Firstly, I would like to mention that it is a very reasonable question to ask especially after trying for a long time to patch a relationship or after trying to reconcile two very different personalities, ways of being or thinking. As some of you may feel guilty, as I certainly felt in the past for even conceptualizing such a question, I would like to say a word of encouragement: it is very liberating when we relax our assumptions about how God is supposed to act and take Him out of the box we tend to put Him into. Additionally, I believe every human being will deal with a dying relationship at some point in life so opening mind and heart to this topic will only bring benefits!

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