Talk:Clarke and Bellamy/@comment-26564154-20150702041105/@comment-25176701-20150911205031

^I think you misunderstood Lexa's line. I think a ton of people have. All of them shippers, of course.

Lexa said that LOVE is weakness. You can love a family member, a friend, a lover, and a pet. Any type of love is weakness when you think about it, and that's what Lexa meant. For example, Clarke left Octavia, the person she loved as a friend, to die in Tondc instead of being weak and giving into those feelings of the love she has for friend, causing her to go back and warn Octavia.

That being said, Clarke absolutely loves Bellamy, but it's not romantic (not yet anyway). When she told him that she was being weak, she decided not to let the (friend) love she has for him stop her from letting him go. It was actually a parallel to what happened with Octavia:

She decides to warn Octavia, but then decides love is weakness and leaves her to potentially die.

She decides not to allow Bellamy to go, but then decides that love is weakness and allows him to go, even if it gets him killed.

Clarke did not love Bell in a romantic way when she admitted she was being weak. It's just shippers interpreting every sign of love as romantic love. Every shipper does that without taking the time to understand that love can be applied to more than just a lover.