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RileyG

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Thanks for the feedback. Maybe you are a-romantic and do not develop romantic feelings. IMO, some people tend to feel this way and there is nothing "wrong" with it...it just is.
 
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It's all about romance before folk get married, and then what do people always say? "Marriage is work".

I've been married twenty years and I've never once felt "the warm fuzzies" other folk talk about. I enjoy spending time with my wife the same way I enjoy spending time with anyone else: it's fun. We just add the stuff we don't do with anyone else like hugs and kisses and *ahem* 'cause they feel good. And I mean they feel physically good, not some magic spell.

The wife doesn't see things the same way I do. But it doesn't matter. I'm happier when she's happy, and she's happier when I'm happy, so we each do some work to keep the other one happy. That's all marriage is.
 
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Thanks for the feedback. Maybe you are a-romantic and do not develop romantic feelings. IMO, some people tend to feel this way and there is nothing "wrong" with it...it just is.

I don't consider myself aromantic. I can feel a lot of romance in a very specific way. Don't really want to get into it here... besides I still view that romance I can feel as ultimately shallow. There is still the interchangeable problem.

I guess if I didn't have that avenue, I'd probably consider myself aromantic.
 
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Yeah, this fits into my evolutionary view of love, specifically for men. Desiring to want to care and protect their partner. A major aspect of women's beauty (especially facial features) has to do with neoteny. Features that elicit help.

I can register a form of that, although it's slightly different.

Still, from my viewpoint there is an interchangeable problem. Although that's probably me needing to grow up and realize love mostly has a utilitarian purpose.
 
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