#romance ambivalent

[aro-ace-chaos]

Shout out to all aros this Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week!

Including, but obviously not limited to:

Romance repulsed aros

Romance averse aros

Romance indifferent aros

Romance ambivalent aros

Romance favorable aros

Green stripe aros

Aros who experience no romantic attraction

Aros who experience little romantic attraction

Aros who experience fluctuating romantic attraction

Non-partnering aros

Partnering aros

Loveless aros

Aroallos

Aroaces

Non-SAM aros

Aplatonic aros

Alloplatonic aros

Arospecs

Greyromantics

Arofluxes

Aromids

Arospikes

Cupioromantics

Nebularomantics

Demiromantics

Lithromantics

Apothiromantics

Platoniromantics

Quoiromantics

Myrromantics

Reciproromantics

Bellusromantics

And all other aros!!!

[stellar-kirbo]

Finding out the hard way that you’re aromantic is often one of the craziest things to go through. Especially when you’re not asexual.

I knew that Aroallo people exist and whatnot but I’m honestly not sure how I didn’t realize I was aromantic for so long given how much I hated romantic acts.

[b-e-b-b-l-e]

I hate you soulmates. I hate you love at first sight. I hate you true love's kiss. I hate you "loving makes you human". I hate you "love is the point". I hate you "finding your other half". I hate you relationship hierarchy. I hate you marriage as the highest form of love. I hate you platonic love as a substitute for romantic love. I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate

[romance-evil-aro]

IT IS OKAY TO HAVE COMPLICATED FEELINGS ABOUT ROMANCE!!!!!! IT IS OKAY TO NOT BE ROMANCE REPULSED OR ROMANCE FAVOURABLE!!!! IT IS OKAY IF YOUR FEELINGS ON ROMANCE DEPEND ON CONTEXT!!!! IT IS OKAY IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR FEELINGS ON ROMANCE ARE!!!!

[stimstar-of-stimclan]

♡ "pride flags you mightve not heard of before" 2/2 | source

gray aroace - romance ambivalent - minsexual novigender - gendervoid - abrosexual

[thetempestechoes]

[ID: a screenshot of an author's note that says, "If anyone makes this a romance thing Im going to lose my fucking shit. explicitly non-romantic;" in all caps. Two further notes are cut off - "whatever;" at the beginning, and "To" at the end, also in all caps. /end ID]

[jailoretos2]

it took me 28 years to realise i was aromantic (and well aroace) bc i thought "i couldn't be aroace, i like the concept of love and want a romantic relationship (which is de facto a companionship), if i was aroace i wouldn't want that thing / be disgusted"

meanwhile: - liking people only when it's online and they're far away / they're an idealized version in my head - craving intimacy but then when a relationship got too real it felt like a chore to do any romance - with activities i only really wanted to do platonic stuff, the thought of doing romantic or sexual stuff didn't rly appeal me - being broken up with for "not being romantic enough" - during relationships, feeling like i was a fraud - questioned at times (internally) whether i wasnt a lesbian in a straight relationship bc i didnt feel attracted to my partner all that much - but i had a similar experience with dating women - also said questioning made me 100% fear like i was leading him on - just chasing an idealized version in my head caused some Situations

and yeah i know it's not limited to those experiences and i'm drawing a blank rn. I want to let you know that even if you aren't repulsed or averse to romance / sex or want / like the idea of relationships / companionships you can still 100% be aromantic and there's nothing wrong in being so.

cupioromantic / qpr wanter aroace here but feel free to add different romance-positive / indifferent / ambivalent / alloaro POVs here.

[rythrogon]

sex between romantic partners is a myth made up by alloromantics to ruin all the good smut fics with mushy stuff and relationship labels