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When family pressure about relationships conflicts with asexual identity

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.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

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.

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