Board Thread:Arrow discussions/@comment-9346948-20160331010340/@comment-3423279-20160331225957

Felicity just wanted to be informed about those kinds of things, but Oliver kept going behind her back, and the mother of Willaim did admit to Felicity that she had created an ultimatium to keep everyone in the dark.

At that point Felicity was most likely far more understanding of the situation, but when Oliver immedietly made that kind of decision without informing her, and he had no shown reason to not tell Felicity about that message, it was an idioitc thing to do.

Oliver had to of known that he was doing something that could make his relationship's trust issues come to a head.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, all he had to do was speak with Felicity about the William thing, he didn't have William's mother saying he couldn't do that, nor did he have a reason to not tell her.

The writers made him an idiot for repeating the same mistake that had his fiancee angry at him for a time until discovering it was someone else's fault, yet he repeated it of his own volition in the first place.