#aro experience

From one of your friends on the ace spectrum. (me)

one of the things that makes me dislike romance is the exclusivity of monoamory, not that polyamory can’t be closed relationships as well but at least those can be open. prefer the idea of people being in open relationships, makes me calmer.. can’t explain why but yeah. it’s more similar to platonic relationships i guess, which make sense to me. i don’t like or need this other type of relationship to exist where it can be exclusive. idk if exclusivity is a thing that can exist in platonic relationships but i wouldn’t like it. it’s less anxiety inducing to think of people not caring who else people they interact with (partners, friends, etc) are involved with, the idea of exclusivity is just weird and alien and uncomfortable to me.