Why elena and stefan break up

During the first season of the show, Stefan fell off the wagon and he had trouble controlling his lust after human blood. At one point, he was due to accompany Elena to the Miss Mystic Falls contest. They were supposed to dance together, but Stefan instead attacked one of the girls competing in the contest and bailed on Elena , even though the contest used to mean a lot for Elena's mom and Elena herself cared about it.

Luckily for Elena, Damon stepped in and replaced his younger brother during the dance. Stefan and Elena formed a couple, more or less, in the first three seasons of the show. Stefan then broke up with Elena at the beginning of the fourth season because he came to realize that she had feelings for Damon.

It's true that it was Stefan who initiated the break-up, and not Elena, but she still behaved less than admirably when she slept with Damon only a single day after the break-up. Waiting a bit longer to uphold the decorum wouldn't hurt her, but no, Elena just didn't wait and went for it straight away. Drinking blood is necessary for vampires, but unless they're drowning deep in the blood lust, they can choose how they're going to feed - whether from animals or from people, from those who are willing or someone they'll force.

Stefan had fed on Elena multiple times, but she didn't always give him her permission, and that should be a big no in a romantic relationship.

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By Kath Leroy Published Aug 25, Stefan, it has to be. The breakup was unexpected and heartbreaking. Speaking with The Vampire Diaries creator Julie Plec and Dobrev, Wesley said his performance in that scene was influenced by his own experiences.

But he did try to keep it all separated from his work on The Vampire Diaries. He said:. And so [director John] Behring kept pushing me. Maybe he sensed I was going through something and so he really wanted that on screen, and I remember just getting a little bit angry at him, even though it was his job. I would do the same as a director. Wesley shared:.

And then I remember after we shot it I was a little relieved, but then also a little bit angry that I had to deal with that and then I had to go home and deal with that.

Caroline separated them, then Stefan held Caroline back from going after Elena. Elena bolted. Stefan said Elena had thrown that party to distract them so she could leave. The brothers arrived just in time to save Elena from staking Caroline after a pretty intense fight sequence in the woods.

In She's Come Undone , Stefan and Damon are at the house with Elena locked in the safe and Damon playing mind games with her for over an hour and still no emotional response from Elena, later brothers are in a room with Elena tied up to chair and they took her daylight ring and they plan on using sunlight to torture her and as Stefan slowly opens the curtain Elena asks if she's supposed to feel scared and Stefan said that she will be and to focus on that fear because its the key to getting her humanity back and she says that they are not gonna burn her and adds that if they get her humanity back she'll remember that they tortured her and she'll hate them for it, Damon says to work risk and Stefan opens the curtain and Elena's skin is burning and Damon extinguishes the fire.

Later on, Elena thanks Stefan for always being there for her. Elena gives him The Cure by telling him that he's worse at being vampire that her, but Stefan gives it back to her. At the end of episode Stefan eavesdrops on Elena's confession to Damon about being in love with him, which causes Stefan to be heartbroken and shed tears. The vision of Damon was trying to convince him to turn off his emotions.

Stefan didn't want shut off his humanity again, he knew it will just cause more damage like last time, where it was one of the reasons why Elena fall for Damon, which caused inevitable break up with her. After some time, when Stefan became weaker, he started to reconsider this idea, until the vision of Elena interfered and convinced him to keep on fighting for her, which he did.

In this episode Elena started to have weird dreams about Stefan and feel strange. She wanted to call him as she felt some pit in the stomach, until Caroline stopped her and said it would not be the best idea, considering she's with his brother now and it would cause more heartbreak for Stefan. At the same time, Caroline tried to convince Elena to reconsider her decision about her relationship with Damon and push her towards Stefan again, who in her opinion would take her back.

In True Lies , Stefan continued to hallucinate. He and Elena were laying with one another next to the quarry talking about how it is just another hallucination.

They were kissing until Elena started coughing and water came out of her mouth. It was the moment, when Stefan woke up in the safe again.

Meanwhile Elena met Silas who pretends to be Stefan , she hugged him and said she was worried about his absence. Silas tried to make her feel guilty for leaving Stefan for Damon. On the road, Damon is driving with Elena and Katherine. Miss Pierce begins to taunt Elena about how all summer she has been having dreams of Stefan and yet was so interested in her relationship with Damon. After stripping Silas of his mind control, Qetsiyah mentioned to Damon, how every version of Stefan and Elena found each other and fell in love.

Later on Elena arrived in the cabin and went straight to help Stefan not even noticing Damon. Stefan woke up only to reveal that he has no knowledge of who they are.

As Damon had to go and left Elena and Stefan alone, they started talking about their family tragedies. Stefan asked her how they met and Elena took him to school to relive the moment.

When they were in school remembering the first time they met, a student was bleeding and passed near Stefan, Elena realized this and took him outside of school. They spend time enjoying each other's company, Elena taught him some of her vampire skills. Stefan guessed that they were dating before - that's why he came back to high school.

He started asking her, why they brokeup - Elena said the reason was her becoming vampire, which changed her. Stefan wanted to know how Elena became vampire. Later, she took him to the Wickery Bridge to remember time, when he saved her from dying.

He told her, that when he is with her, the blood thirst disappears and he feels better. They were about to kiss but Elena told him that she's with Damon now. That made Stefan angry, he was feeling betrayed and his bloodlust returned, he disappeared leaving Elena alone. Later, in the Salvatore's mansion he was burning his diaries, when Elena and Damon arrived. Before he left, he promised to them that he won't become the Ripper again and that Caroline will be checking up on him.

After the call with Tessa, Elena was concerned about why Stefan would be fraternizing with Tessa. When she phoned Damon and Silas made sure Damon told her about how he snapped Stefan's neck a couple of times, Elena was furious.

She had gone to Tessa's cabin to talk sense into Stefan, whom she assumed had slept with Tessa. Once jealous Elena was informed that Stefan wasn't sleeping with Tessa, she tried to leave the cabin, but realized that she's trapped with both of them.

At the cabin, Tessa and Stefan were discussing pizza toppings when Elena explained why she was so upset: Damon's never put anyone's life before hers, so there's no way he'll spare Silas. After some time, Elena couldn't hold it in any longer. She couldn't stand to see Stefan and Tessa flirting while he cooked for her. Elena told Stefan that even if he can't remember it, she does: Tessa isn't the kind of person he'd like. When Tessa gave them some distance, Stefan whispered so only Elena would hear him.

He told her he's got this. Then he followed her. In Death and the Maiden , Stefan woke up from a nightmare about how Silas stabbed him and put him in the safe.

Elena was waiting by his bedside with coffee. Elena told him how she lost a friend when he lost his memory, so she wanted to start over. But that didn't exactly work for Stefan, considering he could suddenly remember everything.

He told her that before Silas stabbed him, he had planned to drive to Portland. Elena was confused and asked him, how does he remember this. He explained, that Qetsiyah was in his room last night and brought back his memories as an act of revenge for his betrayal. Elena hugs Stefan and is rejoiced at the return of his memories. After learning Stefan's plan, Elena was worried that Stefan would get himself killed by going after Silas. But if Stefan didn't get to kill him, Silas would win. Stefan told her about moments of stillness in the safe, in the time that he was dead and just before he would come back to life, when he thought about things that made him happy, things that gave him hope and kept him from switching off his humanity switch.

He explained how, eventually, the pain took away even those moments. Every time he closed his eyes now, he relived those three months, and if he didn't kill Silas and make it stop, he'd lose his mind or flip his switch At the end of episode, Elena found Stefan digging Silas' grave in the woods. She felt the need to continue to be naive and ask if killing Silas fixed him.

She was feeling guilty. She needed to know that he was going to be okay, because while he was suffering for the past three months, she was finally getting her summer of happiness. She needed to know that killing Silas would take away his pain.

All he could say was that he had wanted it to be her I wanted it to be both of you," he said as Damon appeared. She told him she thinks he still loves Elena, and though he wants to leave town, he finds reasons to stay. He grabbed Katherine by the neck and started to strangle her.

She wanted to show him that the safe isn't the problem: The death he felt in the safe wasn't just dying physically again and again, it was the emotional heartbreak of Elena leaving him.

At the end of episode Stefan said, that Katherine was right about him and he needs to move on from Elena. In Fifty Shades of Grayson , while Stefan was changing his clothes, Damon came into his room telling him that Elena was gone and they have to go to her rescue. Later, Stefan accompanied Aaron to his room for clues to find Elena - he found documents, which helped find Elena. When Elena woke up in the lab, Wes was ready to inject her with the thing that would make her Vampire Ripper.

Just as Wes stabbed her, Stefan showed up. Elena head-butted Wes, and Stefan helped her out of there.

Elena was shocked and jealous by this. Later, Nadia popped in to tell everyone she needed help to save Katherine. No one would volunteer, which is why she'd buried Matt in the safe Stefan had spent the summer in, somewhere on the grounds. She correctly guessed that Elena and Stefan would rise to the occasion. Nadia said a Traveler could teach Katherine how to take a ride in a new body -hers.

Nadia bolted the house, and Elena and Stefan realized their day rings no longer worked. A pack of chanting Travelers trapped them in a corner, where they wouldn't burn. Stefan and Elena remained calm enough to quip about their predicament being awkward and them having chosen the wrong day to be in a fight. Elena apologized for her earlier judgment about him having slept with Katherine and admitted it wasn't her place. Then, one guy slit their wrists and they bled into buckets.

They weren't healing. Still bleeding, Stefan made a joke about it being a good thing that he's not claustrophobic anymore. Elena realized that Katherine had helped him through that. Still, she wanted to hate her anyway. Fine, but Stefan said he couldn't. He can't stop rooting for her to find peace. And Damon, too. He told Elena to not give up on Damon like she hadn't given up on him.

He told her to not let Damon give up on her either. The Travelers took the blood they needed and then Elena and Stefan were free to go. In Total Eclipse of the Heart , Katherine who pretended to be Elena had a conversation with Stefan at the end of the episode. Katherine wondered why he wasn't honest with her to begin with. She asked him to be honest with her. Stefan replied that ever since he'd noticed Elena falling for Damon, he'd been waiting for Damon to screw up so badly that she'd turn on him.

But when it didn't happen, he stopped waiting for Damon to fail because he liked the person he had become, and he doesn't want to lose that person.

Later he waited for Elena to wake up. She went downstairs, and Stefan told her Whitmore had cleared out for spring break and she'd been in and out since she first came to. Turns out, they had Bonnie's new witch friend Liv seal Elena in the building because she has a lot to catch up on, including an appetite that she can't control.

Later Stefan showed up with a new cell phone for her, along with four ounces of his blood in water bottle. She wanted more. Caroline called Stefan and told him about the Ripper virus now having werewolf venom added.

She told him there was good news, but to get it, he had to meet her at a location that the Travelers don't want any witches to know about. Before Stefan left, Elena asked why Katherine had stayed in Mystic Falls and guessed it had been for him. He told her they had kissed and he'd pulled away. Later on, Elena left Aaron a message asking him to call her, and then she discovered that Katherine had been writing in her journal. She read about Katherine trying to seduce Stefan in the hotel room and hallucinated her own hot version of it, which ended with her pushing Stefan away and just like in the opening dream, asking why he didn't recognize that it wasn't her sooner.

When Hallucination Elena went to leave the hotel room, Damon was at the door and started a verbal tiff with Stefan. Elena stopped them by saying even when she's dead, Katherine is still getting what she wants: a wedge driven between them. She goes to Stefan after her hallucination, and he hints that there was something bad Damon wasn't telling her.

Her nose starts bleeding. In Resident Evil , episode opened with Elena journaling at a table outside the Grill. A page blew away, and Stefan stopped it before it went too far. After they had flirty banter over the quality of her writing, she introduced herself and then a car horn snapped them both out of the vision. In real life, Stefan was standing in the street, and Elena woke up in bed.

Later Elena had a vision of Stefan walking her home after a movie. It'd been their first date, and they wanted to see each other again. At the moment they kissed in front of Elena's house, someone interrupted this perfect moment. Elena said that it was her father who'd turned on the porch lights to put an end to their first kiss.

Caroline's voice snapped Elena out of the vision, and then Miss Forbes used said voice to tell Elena that she was probably just fantasizing about Stefan because she'd broken up with Damon. But then Stefan called Caroline to tell her about his vision, and they realized something was really going on. In another Elena's vision Stefan was cooking her dinner for their anniversary.

She was looking for a bottle opener in a drawer when she found the little black box he didn't want her to see. She didn't even open it, she just said yes. After that, they started makeout session - dream Elena knocked some mail off the counter, and real Elena broke the glass she was holding. In the last vision, Stefan and Elena had two kids, and they were still in love enough to playfully suggest they'd bite each other.

When the vision abruptly ended, the real Stefan was home at Salvatore Mansion with Elena. He'd felt it, too. Such happiness, and then it was ripped away from them. Elena had tears in her eyes. Was it over? It's over, he said. They sat in front of the fire and came to terms with it: Just because the fantasy was gone doesn't mean the memory of their real relationship had been stripped from them.

That had been beautiful and real with its ups and downs. He said he'd always love her, and she said she'd always love him. Then she asked if Stefan thought she and Damon would ever be able to talk like this, like friends. I don't think you can be both," he said.

In Man on Fire , the episode opens up with Elena studying with her tutor, Stefan. She needs a distraction to forget that Damon declared her dead to him. Bonnie showed up to cram because she was in denial of the threat of her impending death. As the anchor to the Other Side, she only exists as long as it does. Even as someone who's been okay with the show putting Bonnie out of her nothing-to-do-here misery for a season or two , I felt a little sad.

Then again, Elena pointed out that Alaric, Grams, and other supernatural characters, who died would be gone as well if the Other Side disintegrated. Later Enzo crashed Elena's study party and told her and Stefan about Maggie. Sloan had given Enzo a crime scene photo of a decapitated Maggie in Mystic Falls, dated Stefan said he wasn't a Ripper then, so it wasn't him. Enzo had enlisted Liv's help to brain-torture Elena and Stefan so he'd talk. Enzo had Stefan and Elena's hands bound with vervain-soaked restraints so he could read from the diary found with Maggie's body.

Bonnie tried to text Damon, so Enzo called him and told him, in a round about way, that he was going to kill Elena or Stefan -- eye for an eye.

Enzo threatened Bonnie, so Stefan said fine, he Killed Maggie which wasn't true. Enzo threw a stake at Stefan's stomach. Damon made his entrance to interrupt Enzo torturing Stefan. Soon enough, he told Enzo he didn't know it was Maggie when he'd killed her. Stefan was annoyed because Damon had clearly staged it to look like the Ripper had done it. He'd been pissed that Stefan hadn't noticed him gone for five years.

Damon apologized to Enzo but said he'd flipped his switch, so he was doing all kinds of horrible things back then. Damon wanted him to hate him and to take out his rage on him. Enzo drank from Liv, stabbed Damon in the neck when he charged him, and threw vervain on Stefan, who went all Matrix on him. Enzo ultimately bolted with Elena, who Stefan knew Enzo would want to kill to hurt Damon. Stefan had to feed Liv his blood before he could follow Damon.

Elena tried to take care of herself and kick Enzo's ass, but he snapped her neck. Later, Stefan came to check on Elena in her dorm room and told her he'd killed Enzo but they're going to lie to Damon and say he went away. Elena was reluctant but agreed. Outside the shed, Elena tells Stefan that she lied to Damon about Enzo and that she feels guilty.

Stefan tells her to think of all the time Damon's lied to her but covered it up. He tells her that eventually Damon will move on and they both leave. Later in the episode, Elena and Stefan play charades with Caroline and Damon. Elena and Stefan are on the same team. Elena acts out "Skull and Bones" while Stefan tries to guess. Stefan guesses correctly, and they beat Caroline and Damon After charades, everyone decides to play "Never Have I Ever.

Suddenly, Caroline accuses them of hooking up. Stefan and Elena glance at each other. Elena excuses herself and goes to take a shower. After almost being drowned, Elena tells Damon about Enzo's death and that she and Stefan were planning on keeping it a secret from him.

Elena and Stefan go to the Mystic Grill to ask Matt for help. He leads them down a tunnel below the Grill and Elena and Stefan begin to have glimpses of their death as humans. Elena begins to choke on water and Stefan's abdomen begins to gush with blood. They realize that the spell is stripping them of their magic. At the end of the episode, Stefan is killed by Julian. In Home , Elena and Damon volunteer to go on a suicide mission to bring Stefan back. At the end of the episode, Stefan, Elena, Tyler, and Alaric are resurrected.

They are both severely devastated by Damon's sudden death. In I'll Remember , Elena begins to use witch-type drugs to hallucinate Damon. Caroline and Luke tell Elena that it's best for her to move on from Damon.

In order to have hope for finding Damon, Elena calls Stefan to give her hope. Stefan tells Elena that he's lost hope for finding Damon and that she should say goodbye too. Elena sadly agrees and at the end of the episode, she asks Alaric to compel her to forget that she ever loved Damon.

Elena and Stefan go to the Car Mechanic shop where Stefan works. Elena sees a picture of Ivy and comments that she's cute to which Stefan replies that "she was. Elena questions Stefan on health insurance, and he tells her that the point of starting over is to be as human as possible. He further tells her that the best part about starting over is deciding what you wanna do for the next thirty years. Stefan gives her a list of careers that she could be and asks her to challenge him, and he'll show her how it's done.

Elena accepts his offer and they go to the bar. Stefan then states that he wants to forget about Mystic Falls, not her. He assures her that she can visit him and that he'll fix her car if it ever gets damaged at any cost.

Elena hugs him and leaves. Later in the episode, Stefan is on the phone with Elena again, when suddenly Tripp's car comes towards him and he uses his vampire speed to get out of the way. Tripp's car crashes across the Mystic Falls border with Damon and Enzo inside. Alaric is also inside the border of Mystic Falls. Elena asks Stefan if everything's okay, and he tells her that Alaric crossed the border and hangs up. Later in the episode while Alaric is talking to Jo about her father, Elena and Stefan are talking on the phone.

Stefan talks to her about not being invited to "Friendsgving" to which Elena states that she has to side with her best friend, Caroline, in that matter. Elena then asks Stefan how he was able to trust her with his vampire secret. Stefan tells Elena that he was in love with her and wanted her to know everything about him. Elena's face seems to light up when he says this. Stefan then states that she owes him dinner and hangs up.

Stefan reveals to Elena that the Sheriff has glioblastoma, a type of cancer which is spreading to her brain.

Elena and Stefan are both worried about how they will break the news to Caroline. Stefan tells Elena that he should be the one to tell Caroline the news about her mother's condition, since he's been such a terrible friend to her lately.

They learn that Caroline's blood only worsened his cancer, causing him to die at a faster pace and wake up in transition. Later in the episode, Elena is seen waiting outside the hospital, and catches Stefan coming towards her. She asks if there's any news about Liz's condition. Elena then tells Stefan that he should have stopped Caroline from giving her blood to Liz. Stefan defends the action, stating that Caroline was doing whatever she could to save her, and that he gave her the hope she needed.

Still Elena argues that Stefan should have done something to avoid the problem, leading Stefan to bring up her decision about erasing Damon from her life. Elena seems a bit startled and confused. Elena later asks Damon what Kai really meant and he tells her to brush it off.

Elena then asks Damon if she would still be with him if she was human. Damon says they wouldn't. He tells her that human Elena was coming back home for Stefan and that she died on the bridge before she could reach him. Towards the end of the episode, Stefan finds an unconscious Elena on the floor of Caroline's house with Caroline nowhere to be seen. Stefan tells her that Caroline has emptied her whole house with the exception of the doors. He tells her he'll call her when he finds something.

Later in the episode, Elena and Stefan meet at Caroline's party. Elena suggests to Stefan that they should agree to Caroline's offer and give her a year to have her humanity off.

Stefan refuses, stating that she's going to snap when she comes back to reality and that the whole situation is his fault. Elena then asks him about his plan. Stefan refuses and gets Liam to tell him about his location. Elena rushes to go save her.

Elena searches for Sarah everywhere at Whitmore Medical Center, but is unable to find her. She calls Stefan, claiming that she can't find Sarah. She convinces Damon to save his mother, Lily Salvatore , so that they can trigger Stefan's humanity. While at the Salvatore Boarding house in , she sees a picture of Stefan and comments on how cute he was. Stefan decides to go under disguise as "ripper Stefan" and help Damon and Elena drain Caroline of blood and torture her into turning her humanity back on.

Elena questions whether Caroline will want to see Stefan again. Damon smirks and says that Caroline will definitely want to see Stefan again.

Elena is confused, then asks Stefan if he and Caroline slept together. Damon yells 'Yup! Stefan states that he can't change anything that's happened so the three decide to focus on their plan. Elena tells Stefan that Caroline's mom left her a letter before she died, and that it may trigger her humanity. Stefan says that the plan might work and leaves. She assures him that she's safe for now. She tells Stefan that she's certain that Damon hasn't thought the whole idea through.

After trying to convince Damon to reconsider his life as a human, Stefan goes to attend Jo and Alaric's wedding. Elena catches sight of Stefan and comments on how good he looks in a tuxedo. They joke for a bit, and then Elena asks Stefan how he feels about Damon's decision.

Stefan tells her that he doesn't want to lose his brother, but that the choice will be Damon's, no matter what him or Elena think. Stefan tells Elena that Damon found his true personality as a vampire and that he loves being a vampire too much to be human again.

Damon calls for Stefan, and tells her that Elena's not waking up. Stefan hesitates when he sees Elena unconscious. He tells Damon to rush her to the hospital right away. I said to myself, 'This is phenomenal. It's that love story that will be the anchor of this entire show.

We have to earn that. I think it's fun to watch the twists and turns we take. Because you know what? She doesn't know. Elena is always, no matter how single she is, she's still standing there with Stefan. It has to be. They're soulmates. Damon is the third point of the triangle. It's a guy trying so hard to hold on to his humanity through his love for this one girl and then watching as this get ripped out from him And so we went back in and said you know what, take out all the tension music and make it epic, make it sad and beautiful, use the love cue that Stefan and Elena have, use that cue, not the scary cue But then her entire life turned upside down, and any feelings she originally had for Damon were still there, and of course magnified.

There was always going to be a little bit of a confusion there for her — but not enough confusion for her to be over Stefan. It would take a lot to rip Elena away from loving Stefan. It would take years and seasons. Stefan's knee-jerk reaction is to do the heroic thing. He can influence her in the right ways Stefan is a person that she's going to lean on for advice and wisdom.

She trusts him fully. Of course I want him to end up with Elena. Cause I have to, that's all I can hope for. Elena is his true love. All it takes is one intelligently shifted moment or new storyline to sort of diverge and — boom!

You know [how] your first love in high school, or whatever it may be for each person, feels like it? It's almost an infectious look that you see in people's eyes. I've felt it and I'd been in love before, so I wanted to make sure it was epic … just like it was in The Notebook. She loves warm-hearted people who are loving. Since the beginning of the show, Stefan and Elena had this instant connection.

After her parents' death, Elena felt completely lost and dead inside. This is until Stefan arrives and makes her feel glad to be alive. Elena and Stefan have constantly risked their lives for each other. Elena helped Stefan control his heavy blood addiction by giving him her blood a little each day in order for him to gain strength.

In Season Two , they face a huge obstacle when Katherine comes back to town to win Stefan back. Despite this problem, the love between Stefan and Elena prevailed. In Season Three , their love story takes a huge turn when Stefan leaves town with Klaus to save Damon from dying. Elena constantly searches for Stefan all summer and teams up with Damon and Alaric to bring him back.

When Stefan comes back to town, Klaus immediately makes him turn his humanity off when he learns that Elena is still alive. Elena desperately does everything to get Stefan to turn his humanity back on and vows that she won't give up. During this process, Damon and Elena begin to grow close and Damon kisses her, which makes her question who she should be with. At the end of the season, Elena calls Damon and tells him that she's coming back for Stefan.

Even though she had strong feelings for Damon, she was still deeply in love with Stefan. Elena claimed that no matter what happens he's "the best choice she's ever made. Throughout Season Four , Elena struggles with her transition into a vampire.

Stefan assures her that everything will be okay, but their relationship becomes strained. They eventually break up when Elena admits that being a vampire has heightened her feelings for Damon which she can no longer control. When it's discovered that Elena is sired to Damon, Stefan does everything to try to find a way to break the bond.

Stefan and Damon attempt to find the cure before the others in order to break Elena's sire bond. Shortly after the journey, Elena turns her humanity off in reaction to Jeremy's death. Stefan discovers that this also broke the sire bond. He does everything he can to turn her humanity back on.

At the end of the season, Elena reveals that her feelings for Damon are real and she chooses to be with him, leaving Stefan heartbroken.

Caroline often mentioned throughout the show that Stefan is Elena's epic soulmate. After their break up, Caroline told Elena that breaking up with Stefan was a huge mistake. The powerful Original Hybrid Klaus admits that he has never seen a love as strong as Stefan and Elena's, emphasizing how influential their love story is.

Even a vampire like Rebekah envied the love Stefan and Elena had for each other. When Elena chose to be with Damon at the end of Season four, Lexi assured Stefan that Elena was and always will be his epic love.

Throughout Season Five and Season Six , Stefan and Elena are able to accomplish a close friendship and are comfortable enough to ask each other for relationship advice. In the beginning of Season 6, Julie Plec stated that the friendship between Stefan and Elena is very strong, and that it could turn into romance soon.

Many fans hold on to the hope that this epic couple will reunite again. As said by Klaus, "Crazy or not that kind of love never dies. Throughout the show, there have been a various amount of objects, heartfelt embraces, and emotional moments that have played an enormous role in the representation of Elena and Stefan's relationship. These symbols also continue to frequently reappear throughout the course of the show.

Famous symbols and memorable moments of their relationship include:. Elena Gilbert is a popular teenager in her senior year, mostly referred to as the Queen of the school, but somehow felt lost in her world, wanting to fit in somewhere else. She is confident and bold and always got what she wanted, until a new student came to school, a gorgeous Italian named Stefan Salvatore.

Stefan was a centuries old vampire, who still felt guilt over the lost of Katherine von Swartzschild , a young lady that he had loved very much. At first, he felt Elena's powerful personality, but had no clue who she was, and Elena was shocked that he never even noticed her, as did the other guys. During European History Class, Stefan was shocked when he saw Elena and how her appearance was exactly like Katherine's.

He then purposely tried to keep away from her, and left immediately when the class was over. Elena, hurt by his behavior towards her, vowed that she'd have him. She broke up her current boyfriend Matt Honeycutt , as she felt that their relationship wasn't what she wanted.

Matt was hurt, but remained her friend. After another attempt to talk to Stefan failed, she created a rumor to make it seem that she wasn't upset.