#COUGH COUGH YES THIS WAS ENTIRELY INSPIRED BY A QUOTE FROM A VERY SILLY MOVIE IDK IT'S JUST ALWAYS GOT TO ME LMBO

[sneakyfox55]

so since Valentines is tomorrow i just!! wanted to go ahead and say my part to also, celebrate Aromantic Awareness Week too by mentioning that we never talk about how romance, at its core, is a friendship more than anything! you can have your sex and sensual intimacy and kissing but, the thing is, it all goes back to people just. genuinely craving companionship. hddklsjdslk maybe it's just me being Demi personally but i think, to water romance down (as a lot of most media does) to just the sexual tension, or kissing, or flirting is doing us all a disservice. that stuff is all well and good! but to me romance has always been more than that.

it's about getting to know your partner better than you know yourself. it's about wanting to spend the rest of your life with them, and share in the highs and lows of what it may bring. it's a bond you have that is no less stronger than a friendship and, again, a friendship--that is practiced through a different lens--is a great way to describe it i think at its root. everything else is just a reflection of that.

above all else, romance begins with having a best friend.

and i think that's a very beautiful thing!