I know Gilbert took too long to realize his feelings for Anne, but can you blame him? I mean, when Anne came to Avonlea his father was dying, he was attracted with Anne but that wasn’t something he could talk about or try to focus on (LIKE A NORMAL BOY) because he had a lot of

responsibilities on his shoulders. He had no one to talk about it, until he met Bash. That's when he decides to talk about her and finally there's someone trying to tell him that he CLEARLY likes Anne, and that's when he starts to pay a little more attention to his feelings...

when he was back to Avonlea is when he started spending more time with Anne, being friends and having a lot of cute moments together, but I think he couldn’t think or realize that he actually liked her because that’s when he started to focus on his dream to become a doctor

In S3 he has Bash, Mary and Delly, he has a family now and he knows that he wants to be a doctor, what’s the problem now? well, that’s when (FINALLY) he tries to focus more on his feelings again, but when he goes to Charlottetown with Anne and she says she don’t need him or when

he thought she was suggesting him to post but she says he should do that if he’s interested in Ruby is when he thinks there’s no opportunity between them and decides to forget it.

when he sees Winnie, he's attracted to her, that's when he finally tries to focus more on

his feelings AGAIN, but what happens next? Mary is about to die and Anne is the one who is there for him, he breaks in front of her and she decides to hug him...and I think, his brain and his heart tried desperately to tell him that he LOVES HER but (again) he couldn’t think ab

his feelings for Anne because Mary was dying.

After that he kept dating Winnie, but then THE DANCE happened and his heart (again) tried to tell him, to SCREAM that he's feeling something deeply, that he loves her and he's in love BUT now he's so confused

and there’s another BIG THING and is the fact that dating Winnie and meet his parents is basically marriage. Anne writes the article,they work as a team and AGAIN his heart is desperately SCREAMING that he's in love with Anne. Winnie's parents offer him everything but finally his

heart decides to talk instead of his mind and that’s when he says "just one thing" BUT AGAIN, he thinks Anne doesn’t love him AND HE THINKS that was the answer he needed to finally focus on his future with Winnie and propose to her,

but what happens next? his heart again

is the one who is trying to talk and that’s when he finds the story club, that’s when he stops everything to finally think about it, that’s when he REALIZES and finally decides to write the letter. He really took the time he needed,he finally thought about it and finally

the reality of "it always has been and always will be,you" hit him in the face. He finally understood that the only person he wanted to marry was her. He took all the moments where he couldn’t think about it before,he took those little details and he took his feelings,that’s when

he realizes "you're the fond object of my affection and my desire. You and you only are the keeper of the key to my heart". And he wrote it without knowing that Anne loved him back...he was aware about his feelings now, he accepted he loved Anne but he didn’t think ab

it being a mutual feeling, we know that because he really asked her "do you trULY HAVE FEELINGS FOR ME?" AFTER KISSING HER omg.

Gilbert went through a lot of things and that’s why he couldn’t focus on his feelings earlier, but the important thing is that he finally

could unburden his heart and let it confess everything he felt from the first day his eyes saw Anne