aerospace-agenda:

Some things to make clear;

Not experiencing romantic attraction or love is not the same thing as “not caring”. 

Not experiencing romantic attraction or love is not the same thing as “lacking empathy”, with a corollary that having no, or low, empathy, is not a bad thing.

Sexual relationships do not require romantic elements in order to be valid, meaningful, or important to you.

A sexual relationship not having romantic elements does not mean it is abusive, and, similarly, romantic elements do not necessarily make a relationship non-abusive.

Aromantic people are not necessarily even interested in sexual relationships, long or short term, regardless of whether they are allosexual. 

It’s possible to have long-lasting intimate sexual relationships with people without it being romantic.

Intimacy and romance are not the same thing.

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