I realized a thing... Semantics suck...
So for the last year I’ve been trying to figure out where the heck I lie on the romantic spectrum... I kept asking myself whether or not what I felt for the last guy I dated qualified as “romantic attraction”...
The other day I thought about it differently... I thought “Am I comfortable describing what I felt for him (or anyone else) as ‘romantic’”. My immediate answer was “HELLS NO!”... In that one rewording I realized I was aro or on the aro-spectrum... Finally, some bloody peace of mind!
I told the guy I thought had a thing for me about this (he already knew I was asexual) and he asked some questions and was like “I’d be ok with [you being aromantic]”. We’ve been dating for about a month now :)
Moral of the story: Good people exist and don’t stress about labels - sometimes things just click at 6:30 in the morning when you can’t sleep!