i don't believe her. i think she realized after he left how she felt and it was too late.
I absolutely agree with this statement. He left and her hurt made her reflect and pretty much think "Oh shit, that was love... I fucked up."
ON the other hand.. love is a hard word to say. I think too often it gets thrown around and isn't meant.
I've had someone say they love me within the first day of a relationship, I kindly told them that I couldn't say it back, but that they should wait because it should come.
Two weeks in, he admitted it hurt him too much for the love to be unrequited, I had to figure myself out.
I spent a few hours looking up definitions of love and scribbling key-points on my arm until I realized I did love him.
It wasn't until months later I realized I was IN LOVE. They are different.
Maybe the girl in the show loved him, but wasn't in love so she didn't want to say it.
I tell my friends I love them constantly (a hurtful thing for my boyfriend since it took me a while to say it back to him), but I say it to them because I know they don't desire me to be IN LOVE with them, and they understand that my words do not mean I am in love but rather that I care extra deeply about them.
I feel it's a superbly important difference that many people neglect.