jumpingjacktrash:

littlepinkbeast:

the-real-seebs:

Anonymous writes:

Romance: unknown, seems to be “best friends with sex”. I’m clearly missing something. (People treat it as separate from sex, a bigger deal than friendship) So: what is romance.

I don’t really entirely know. I would have pretty much agreed with that definition at one point, but there are people who have romance without much friendship, and now I just don’t even know. It doesn’t appear to be inherently sexual, although there’s a ton of correlation. I have no idea.

Romance, IMO, is when you don’t just Have Feelings about someone, you also Have Feelings about Having Feelings about them.  Barring that, just watch the Addams Family movies.

wow, it is really hard to explain how romance is different from friendship. i feel both toward seebs, and they’re not the same. and it’s not remotely just sex. but any attempt i could make to explain it would just turn into poetry. i can’t be concrete about it.

i think romantic love is one of those things that can’t be explained directly, like enlightenment.