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You can add me to the list of people who used to think this way - it seems it's a pretty common aro experience to think that "romance" just means "good friends who have sex"! I also started to see the flaws in that definition when I learned about asexuality and the fact that many aces have romantic relationships. My understanding now is that what people call "romantic attraction" is (probably) part physiological phenomena, part subjective conscious experience of physiology, and part social framing of subjective conscious experience.

My understanding is that that's exactly how many polyamorous relationships work

Thank you both for the welcome. I found this place via a friend of mine from Trevor Space. Compared to Trevor Space, this place is a ghost town. I guess its cause everyones more involved with the discord more than anything Either way, it's nice to meet yall

Yes. I hate the idea of performing romantic affection, and I hate the idea of being tied to one person. It sounds like psychological prison.