How can you tell romantic and platonic love apart? What does it mean to fall in love with someone?

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    My point is essentially that you can atomize your desires, and that the label for the whole will sort itself out as you find the need to quickly describe the whole, with that person or others. So if you want to give someone chocolates, then give thon chocolates. If you want to share an umbrella with someone, then share an umbrella with thon. And so forth. You don’t really need labels just to act on your feelings, I don’t think.

    And if the person then asks you if you’re in love with thon, then you don’t really need to have an absolutely certain answer, either. Absolute certainty is uncomfortable and rare, and uncertainty can communicate just as much, anyways.

    So if the right word evades you, then talk around it, basically.