My mom keeps asking when I'm going to bring someone home for the holidays and I don't know how to explain that romantic love feels like trying to understand a foreign language everyone else speaks fluently.
More people experience this than they realize.
The gap between familial expectations of romantic normalcy and one's authentic asexual experience creates a painful sense of alienation from those closest to us.
“Where Are You with Asexual and aromantic identity?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.