Not only love is not exclusive of romance, but even infatuation. Most people would agree that family is kind of non-romantic loving relationship, especially from the mother to the children, but friendship and companionship may be more important than romantic partnership even for some romantic people, and they would recognize it if the society hadn’t brainwashed them. In the same way asexuals are a minority in the society, aromantics are a minority among asexuals, and we have to bear being invisibilized inside the asexual community by the «love without sex» voices who deny us the ability to love only because we lack one of the kinds of love they present. They are actually ignoring the relationships of other kinds they have, and diminishing their non-romantic loving relationships. I must add that there are non-asexual aromantics, and probably most aromantics are heterosexual because of the great proportion of heterosexuals. For those who still don’t know it, in the asexual community we use to separate sexual and romantic orientation, having for the latter heteroromantic, homoromantic, biromantic and aromantic in the same way I told in Spanish for sexual orientation. When I read that this round of the carnival was about relationships, as an aromantic, I thought I had to write anything in order to avoid that we were invisibilized under the assumption that relationship means romantic. Escribo en inglés porque es el idioma de este carnaval. Esta entrada es una colaboración para el carnaval de blogs sobre asexualidad y relaciones.
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