User blog comment:CreddieLuv4eva/"Is it too late for you to love me?" Analysis Blog/@comment-6977360-20120623221021/@comment-4196911-20120624003847

'My own feeling is that Dan had Seddie in an arc, and broke them up the way he did, for a reason, being that they can't work together without Carly's help. I think that's the strongest message the arc episodes send, that they just aren't compatible together in a romantic relationship. '

That's one way to look at it. The other way is the fact that they seemed to be doing fine and working through their issues until Carly suggested they needed to share each other's hobbies. They were totally fine with not seeing each other over that weekend, because they had their own things going on. But Carly thought that was a problem, when they didn't think it was. Carly was just trying to be helpful, but she has a certain idealistic image of the way a romantic relationship should be that isn't necessarily right for everyone.

Yes, early in their dating, they needed Carly's help to stop fighting. But not later ("How's it going with Freddie?" "Good. We only fought twice this week.") But ironically, it was Carly's good-natured (but bad) suggestion at the beginning of iLY that ended up contributing to their break-up.