Being Aromantic When Your Parents Have Always Been The Perfect Married Couple Is So Wild....

Being aromantic when your parents have always been the perfect married couple is so wild....

Like I grew up understanding how loving and healthy their relationship was, how close they were and how they were best friends that made each other better people. And I’m like, yeah, I’ll have that one day. We’ll love each other like that, and get married and have kids and it’ll be so fun. I can’t wait to meet that person.

And as the years go by and I have absolutely zero interest in anyone, my mom is reassuring me that I’m busy with school, my older sister is reminding me that I’m so young, it’s not “real” dating anyway so why bother, my grandparents are telling me to “never settle, sweetie” and I’m like yeah lol don’t worry I will never settle I just haven’t found anyone I want to date...I’m just busy right now and everyone is so young, they can’t actually be seriously dating, right?

:/

And then it’s college, and everyone IS seriously dating besides me, and I realize people actually get crushes on people, like that’s not just a childish infatuation...I come to realize after forcing myself on a few first dates (they asked me out and I felt like I should at least try, right? How will I ever find that special person if I don’t at least try?) that I don’t actually like it...I don’t like them. I don’t like dating. ?

And because my parents relationship is still #goals in my head, because I still want those feelings, when I take the online tests to see if I’m aromantic or not, I fail them. I like romance stories and I see the appeal of a long term romantic relationship...so I’m “most likely not aromantic”...despite, you know, never feeling that way towards anyone...

How was I suppose to realize I’m aro when half of it’s just a waiting game? And I, despite not LIKING romance for me, WANT to want romance for me. Amatonormativity’s a bitch.

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