SO today I came across someone who identified as "aromantic" as in "does not experience romantic attraction". Not asexual - has, desires and enjoys sex - and not just someone who has no interest in or desire for romantic relationships, but someone who is incapable of experiencing romantic love.
This isn't something I've ever really come across before and it really got me thinking. How does one define romantic love? I'd always sort of thought of it as platonic love + sexual desire, which now I write it down seems odd, as there's a sort of intangible extra portion of something there, but then when I think about it further I'm not quite sure? DH is my favourite person in the whole world, he's my best friend. But then again I do have another incredibly close best friend and if you take away the fact that I want to fuck DH and not DFriend, the way I feel about them is really very similar.
So, what makes love romantic if not sex and physical attraction? What separates it from true pure friendship of the highest kind?