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xElvenPiratex said:
I won't lie, my jaw dropped in disbelief when she detto that to him and it made me really mad. I definitely feel she owes him an apology for treating his feelings so lightly and treading all over them. However, after my initial fury wore off, I forced myself to take a step back and try to see things from her point of view. Elena's life is quite literally falling apart. Stefan has completely gone off the deep end, her best Friends are constantly being attacked da people she introduced them to, she's just gone against every moral instinct she has and manipulated her brother's memory and sent him away, she's struggling with how she should handle the situation with the Originals and then, on superiore, in alto of all that, she's recently realized she's in Amore with two men and has no idea how to handle any of it. She feels like everything bad that's happening to the people she loves is her fault and that she's failed at every turn while trying to protect them. From her perspective, a chance at meeting with Mama Original is the first big break she's had in a long time and she truly believes that it will lead to knocking out everyone's biggest threat. And then Damon comes along, and he genuinely has Elena's best interest at heart, but he goes about it completely the wrong way da talking down to her and trying to control her. Of course we know Damon is only trying to take care of her, but from where she's standing it seems like he doesn't trust her and after the way she once trusted him when no one else did, it hurts her feelings. So she lashes out and hurts him, just like most people do when their feelings are hurt. So both of them feel betrayed da the other and since Elena knows Damon and his tendency to act out when he's hurt, she's worried about him but can’t get him on the phone. When she finally reaches him the successivo morning after a night of worrying and fearing the worst (did anyone else notice she slept with her Teddy - the same one that Damon loves so much?), she finds out he didn't answer because he simply didn't want to talk to her, which simultaneously makes her feel guilty for what she did to him and mad at him for making her worry, so she once again lashes out. It was a defense mechanism, pure and simple. It's easy to be angry at Elena for hurting Damon because we all Amore him and are protective of him - and after the pain he's been through, he deserves to finally be happy. But we have to remember that Elena has been through a lot of pain too. She's much più introverted and doesn't openly mostra her feelings the way Damon does, so it's easy to assume she doesn't feel them, but she does. She's human and she makes mistakes. We should forgive her for doing stupid things just as we've always forgiven Damon and trust that she'll do the right thing in the end. There's no point in being angry at Elena o the writers. It's all part of the journey :)
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