Ideally the person you date and/or spend your life with should be someone you consider a friend as well as a magical sex machine. Pretending the two can't overlap at all is staggeringly dumb.
Cuddleturkey, November 03, 2013, 05:15:24 pm
This is something that most people recognize after a while, that platonic enjoyment of each other and romantic enjoyment of each other should ideally go together, rather than being two completely separate realms.
But I honestly think that a lot of people start out
not getting just because of how romance is represented in so damn many movies, books and other things. It's always some sort of MAGICAL SPECIAL THING that strikes RIGHT FROM THE MOMENT THEY SEE EACH OTHER and then all they do is ROMANTIC DATING THINGS which are usually completely different from what they do with their friends.
I'd be willing to bet most of these people are under or around 20-ish and not too socially experienced, who have weird ideas about romance, and women in general, because of how the two are represented in a lot of shitty media, and unless they get dragged into some sort of MRA weirdness where they consider women to be incomprehensible aliens, they'll probably figure it out eventually.