User blog comment:Cartoonprincess/Why Carly is *NOT* Acting OOC in iLMM/@comment-4196911-20110812045136/@comment-3037452-20110812105242

Heyy @Arch, maybe this might help..

As a trio-shipper who usually doesn't care about canon at all, (fanon is where it's at, whoo) just wanna offer another pov on the iSaved Your Life thing. Carly didn't ~appear to be "sad" because she had already been infected with "doubt". Once you start questioning yourself, it be can very worrisome & since Freddie seemed to be *for* it (taking a break), she might have also worried that anything else she said at that moment *would* be cuz she was really just "under the influence" & so maybe it was better if she went along with the idea- maybe she thought if her feelings ~could survive however long a time-out they took, then later she would kno for sure that they were for real. After all- it's not like there was any rush or anything.. they're already good friends, they have all their lives for something happen. Also, sometimes it DOES take a major event for you to realize how you feel about someone. Just cuz that event was what made it possible, doesn't mean there's anything automatically artifical about those feelings.

So Carly's pushed aside her feelings this whole time, even tried dating someone else for a while. Unfortunately, that ended badly (it seems most of her relationships with other guys go bad, & usually Sam is involved somehow- making fun of Griffin's collection when Carly asked her for encouragement; planting that seed of doubt in Freddie about being with Carly; implying to Adam that Carly was with Freddie then getting Adam attacked by rabid iCarly fans; then when it was suspected Steven was cheating, Sam was the first one dying to prove he really was, even tho Carly wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt) & so now she's back to being single & maybe at some point she'll start letting those pushed-aside feelings come back to the surface again.. that is, unless it appears Freddie's already moved on, in which case she might just force herself to forget him. The same could be said for Freddie, he blames himself for initiating the break-up, & probably thinks maybe she doesn't really have those feelings for him, so he's trying to move on too. But he'll always still love her.. you may not always actively obsess over your first love, but the feelings do stick around, somewhere deep inside.. XDD

xoxoxo