What separates it from being friendship + sexual attraction? I have friends who I'll fool around with but wouldn't say I'm romantically involved with, but recently I realized I don't even know what that is beyond those two things lmao
Asking here instead of Reddit because I don't want R*dditors to respond
It makes better sense in context – but for much of love, there is a sense of possession. It turns ugly sometimes, obviously. Intimacy is yours, their weakest moments are meant to be yours, much of their time is yours. Crushes on people are the desire to have this.
I mean I understand that you can have a bit of posessiveness without it being overbearing or problematic but that feels like a really weird thing to center on as the essence of love