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Do you think a marriage can be successful even if there aren't really any romantic feelings towards each other? (Page 2)
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Technically. But I would never settle for something like that. I deserve better and so would my wife.
Settle for someone like what?
Settle for a relationship that becomes devoid of love.
you do realize that romance and love is not the same thing right?
There's non romantic love, sure. I'm referring specifically to romantic love.
I guess…but doubt it. Plutonic marriages could be more like a business partnership.
Who said anything about a platonic relationship? Lol
So you’d fuck without romantic feelings?
Absolutely. I used to all the time
If you’re attracted to the person it’s romance isn’t it?
No it’s not the same thing
I guess its all our personal definitions. so ok.
ya most marriages are sexless eventually anyways lol
Who said anything about a sexless marriage?
you said no romantic feelings? so they’re not attracted to each other at some point.
you realize that romance and sexual attraction isn't mutually exclusive right?
i thought u meant in a general sense, don’t really care about the semantics of it
No if there is no romantic feelings its not a marriage its a friendship
How does being friends with your spouse make a marriage unsuccessful
Cause your roommates at that point if there are no romantic feelings
Thats not a marriage
Well a marriage is really just a legal document and and friends can have sex.
I might be perpetually single but... please never get married.
Friends don't fuck each other. If they do, they're either friends with benefits, which, if both agree can be fine (not my thing) or they're horribly abusive friends who use each other for physical purposes.
I don't fuck my friends, male or female. If I'm friends with a woman I don't expect to see her with clothes off and I would hope the same from her. Having said that, I have seen my best friend (who is a woman) naked before. But that was not quite in a sexual context. It's complicated. But it was still platonic.
This man has it right. A friend you marry is a roommate. A friend you love beyond words like no other and feel intense love and attraction for and marry? That's your spouse.
@Subarugirl Wow! Is that all you think marriage is cause it's so much more than that. If that all it is to you then why did you get married you can fuck without being married you could have just been friends with benefits. I know it a tough pill to swallow but you and your husband are just roommates if there are no romantic feelings
@InventorofWarp I didn’t say anything about not loving you’re spouse I’m taking about romantic feelings, which is not synonymous sex or any other physical relationship.
And I feel sorry for you if you think that you’re always going I have romantic feeling towards you spouse.. it doesn’t usually work that way.
@Subarugirl Wow.
Whoever hurt you, I'm sorry.
Hopefully you get better eventually. It'll all work out.
@InventorofWarp thanks but I have a great life and marriage :)
@Subarugirl At the end of the day you have to do what works for you I don't want you to think I'm judging you cause I'm not. It just seems strange to be in a marriage with someone you have no romantic feelings for
Nah, they aren't the only people in the world, so no
Yes ofc. I think it will last longer that way
Successful maybe Miss, but happy not quite sure.
Of course, as long as you sleep with other people
What does that have to do with anything
If you aren't romantically attracted, you are just in a business proportion. The business can run smoothly as long as your needs are being met extramaritally
Why couldn’t they be met with in the marriage?
Because they aren’t romantically interested in each other… isn’t that the point of the question?
Sexual attraction and romance isn’t synonymous
This only works if the guy is rich.
Read your question back out loud to yourself
I did, hence the update
Technically yes, practically no.
Not if there never were.
it could, but definitely not for me
Yes, if both partners are on the same page
Perhaps tolerable, but not successful.
Marriage yes, relationship NO its based on sex
Yeah but I didn’t say anything about sex just romantic feelings
Hence the answer Yes in marriage
for a woman thats true not for a man its all sex
how do you think i face in profile
No I don’t believe so. You need to have spark.
Depends on your definition of success TBH.
Nope.
"Just so you guys know romance and sex are not synonymous"
With me they are, one results in the other and I cannot separate the two.
I'm either interested in someone romantically because I find them sexually attractive, or I'm not sexually attracted to them. Romance to me is just wanting/giving exclusivity with sexual stuff.