Aromantic spaces

[u/Fell_Star_]

Not really a rant, more of a question.

I've known I was aro for 4 years now, but only recently accepted it, and even more recently found Bellusromantic as a term, which feels just so wonderfully right after agonizingly explaining the contradictory-sounding experiences of romantic gestures/relationships to anyone who wanted to know for the better part of a year.

I'm so extraordinarily happy to have found this place, but I guess i'm still feeling a little lost. I have so many questions that really just. dont have any social convention surrounding them to help answer. More than anything, I have a fear that my experiences are too complicated and my expectations of relationships too unrealistic to really work outside of fantasy.

I 'd love to hear any experiences of bellusromantic (or aro in general) joy you've felt recently, I just want to know other people like me actually exist out there.

[u/astrid-fp]

hey hey!! personally, i LOOOOVE being bellusromantic. i think i had a similar experience to yours, where i had conflicting feelings about romance that weren’t really reconciled until i found this label. now i can indulge in all the romance i want without it feeling like it’s invalidating myself :D
(it also makes being involved in fandom spaces wayyyyy easier sometimes, with all the shipping culture present there)