I don't know if most people realize that being Ace doesn't necessarily mean you are devoid of emotional and sexual attraction or all sense of romance. I mean, it IS inclusive of those people who that describes, but it's not a [tongue firmly in cheek] 'binary' thing. As with most things, it's a spectrum.
I can still look at a person and go "Wow, they are very attractive" or "Those are some nice boobs, yo". But the difference is I have no desire/urge to act on that. If that person said, "I saw you checking me out, would you like to go out?" I'd almost certainly have to find a nice way to say "No thanks." This became more and more my norm as I get older.
As for the notion of romance, that also varies. I have been in committed relationships. I have loved and longed for the idea of romantic longevity as a concept. That said, most of my relationships lasted no more than 4 or 5 years at best except my last relationship which lasted twice that long. (much much less with any guys I dated back in the day - I think J was possibly the longest at ~ 2 years - after that I was only in lesbian relationships)
Over time I've learned that my weak-by-comparison romantic quotient is nothing like the average person's. If a Hallmark-channel-christmas-romance-novel-loving person is a 10 and a 'normal' person is a 7 or 8, I'm like a 3. So eventually... we "grow apart" as the saying goes. Or I don't grow together may be a better way to put it. I still love S, but us staying together was, in hindsight, never going to work.
Anyway, TMI I know. But it's been on my mind.
And also I hit publish before I meant to, just in case you were liek 'well that ended abruptly'. ;)
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