Haze

Hello! I strongly suspect I have a squish on someone but i'm still not sure yet so i've been curious about what were your experiences with squishes (Especially online one, if you had one where you couldn't meet with your squish). How did you know it was a squish and not just another friendship (if you were friend with the person) ? Did you ever felt jealous (toward a romantic partner or a close friend of them?)? Did you want to get over the squish if the other person didn't really reciprocated the feeling or were you satisfied with your current friendship ? Or anything you want to tell, I'm interested to hear about it !

Hello! I've seen a lot of people talk about their squishes and how it's not that different from romantic feelings. I used to say I got squishes in the past but I find myself not really relating to those experiences ? I remember having this "feeling" with both men and women, even though they're rare. Basically, I can just look at someone (often guys) and tell myself "wow they are very handsome/cute" (i have a strong aesthetic attraction) and just stare at them (sounds creepy...). I might want to become friends (depends on how "cool" I think they are because sometimes they can be too cool for me and i'll just be content watching them) but that's it. I might be happy when they enter a room i'm in but once they're out of my sight, I can forget them easily So I wonder if these are squishes, something else, or are they basic crushes and i'm just "too shy" to go further ?

I felt the same basically. I remember in middle school there was a popular boy that i was (kinda?) friend with and a lot of girls were crushing on him so I said I had a crush too but in reality, I was just admiring his look and personnality. I didn't want to do anything else with him (except maybe spend some friends time with him) Really ? That is interesting thank you ! thank you for your reply ! It was helpful : )

That might be my case then. It's very confusing but thank you for your reply !

Hello, I hope this post has its right here ! So basically i'm kinda confused but I identify myself as aromantic and asexual. Precisely, the terms that fit me the most is aegoromantic (and aegosexual but i don't think it's relevant here) which means that I enjoy the idea of romance as long as it doesn't involve me. I love reading fanfictions and I can enjoy a good romance in tv shows (if it's not forced) but when I try to think of me in a romance, I always find myself uncomfortable and I could never picture it clearly. The fact is that I had some squishes (I think I can call it that) on the past on both girls and boys in real life but I alway find myself more attracted (physically) to guys (for example; with celebrities or fictional characters) and I wonder if it's related to being aromantic (which means that since i'm a girl, I unintentionally avoid other females because it reminds me of myself) or if i'm maybe heteromantic ? Or some of you also experience aesthetic attraction to one gender in particular ? I hope that what I said was clear enough