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Originally Posted by plastroncafe
I know you're being glib here, or at least I hope you are because the alternative is your assumption that romantic love is a choice, and being anti-romantic love is the default setting.
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Um ... no.
When it comes to human experiences, being romantic or aromantic isn't a choice. However, society's culture and environment tend to influence what is and isn't an acceptable set of (a)romantic expressions.
In modern society, most people usually assume that you must be in a romantic relationship with someone, or at least have a crush on someone. They also tend to think that you must seek out desires of romantic/sexual pleasures. If you have never experienced any of those things, then society thinks that you're an anomaly.
It's been really frustrating for me.
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It may be A default setting for some, sure. But that's not an absolute.
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And vise versa.
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I have no problems exploring that difference. Especially given that there are a lot of people who never develop romantic attachments, and even some for whom such at attachments only begin to form far later in life than adolescence.
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Then we came to a similar conclusion?