rpanons | It's just like my japanese yaois

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She treats love and affection like currency, something that can be owed, earned, or deserved (or not). A lot of this goes back to her mother, who seems to have doled out affection in the same way one would hand out treats to a dog that's just learned a new trick. While Regina's been getting better at this over the course of seasons 2 and 3, she still tends to fall back on thinking that if she performs X set of actions, love and approval will fall out. This is part of why she deals so badly with rejection. She views human interaction as a transactional affair, so from her perspective, she's fulfilled her obligations and the other party is, by not reacting in the manner she anticipated, breaking the contract.

Relatedly, she doesn't really know how to be happy. She used the original curse to give herself a happy ending, and wound up suffering from ennui until she adopted Henry, with a brief interlude when Greg/Owen and his father arrived. Much like her view of love as earnable currency, she views happiness as a series of goal posts - have X thing, achieve Y objective, and you will have an increase of happiness by Z magnitude. Again, this is something she's getting better at, but she still has a lifetime of warped thinking to overcome.

It's just like my japanese yaois

Re: Regina Mills ; Once Upon A Time