Chapter 11- Relationships with Romantic Partners

 I am just going to start off by saying this, I have never had a serious romantic relationship. I can also count the number of times I have ever had a serious crush on one hand. To make a long story short, romantic love or anything related to it is an alien concept in my eyes. It isn’t to say that I don’t experience things like attraction, it’s just that it is so infrequent that it often has left me feeling more confused than anything. The times I have felt love for someone, it was usually with someone I was really close to, someone I had shared many experiences with. Although, I guess it is not appropriate to call that true romantic love as I never felt the need to “be” with them. I suppose the type of love I tend to feel is known as companionate love, which basically involves me having to be close to the other person in most aspects of my life (ch. 11, pg. 290). That being said, even though the class is ending, using the information given to me so far, I hope to become more aware of when I do experience feelings of love, if not to gain experience and more to understand and not feel like an idiot.