8 Reasons Why I Love Being Aromantic | ASAW 2023

With Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week right around the corner, let's reflect on why we love being aro! Being aromantic, while it can be challenging at times, comes with many positive aspects. When alloromantic people may often view our arospec identities negatively -- as if our lack of romantic attraction or atypical relationship with romance is a loss -- they fail to realize the perks of aromanticism.

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Welcome, lovely humans and aliens! We are a trio consisting of an asexual, a greysexual, and a demisexual. On our channel we talk about queer things in addition to our other nerdy interests.

My name is Elle (they/he/she) and I'm an enby and aro-space ace doing my queer thing here in the internet universe. Join me and let's be gay nerds. I'd really like that. Love you!!

[iliotropio]

I love being aromantic because: 1. I have the space to focus in myself and my growth, and experience the world without being attached to a partner. 2. I can be more independent. 3. I can form deep friendships and give a huge amount of love to my friends!

[cultofnatethemagnificent]

One thing I love about being aroace is that I don't need a relationship, I have other really cool things to do than be constricted by someone else.

[Valerielikescats]

i love being aromantic cuz i dont have to spend my time being like "does he/she like me" crying over exes or trying to date also i get more time to myself to take care of my strawberry garden

[cassandraflannigan]

I'm a aro and what I love about being aromantic is the fact that I can be single forever if I want to I can treat myself all the time I can love myself

[LCcoolcraft]

I am ace and probably also aro, and I definitely agree that the aromantic flag is really cool! Also, your hair looks wonderful.

[passaggioalivello]

I love being an aromantic asexual human, I can spend my time with my special interests.

[sunstarsart]

I very recently realised that I am romantic (99% sure) and what I love about it is that you have a lot more time and energy to use on friends or hobbies etc. (as you mentioned). Relationships just appear to be so much effort for legit no reason like when I was still figuring out if I liked dating I just felt to burnt out and out of place. Now I just feel a new freedom lol

[kat_the_mouse]

Being aro is so much simpler. No relationship stress, no trying to date, no wanting someone I don't have. Just me and my dog, the way I like it.
Plus every time I realize I'm a different identity I get into that aspect at a deeper level. For instance, if I wasn't nonbinary, I wouldn't know what my gender felt and looked like. If I wasn't aro, I wouldn't know about all the different kinds of attraction and how I feel them. I like being able to know all these things about myself.

[lifetheorist]

Very late to this, but I like being aromantic because of my unique perspective on romance. It can be very entertaining to see people's reactions when I bring up a new point none of them thought to consider, I don't think I'll ever get tired of it

[arihantjain]

I prolly also feel strong platonic attraction but I also have to, at the same time come to terms with the fact that my friends will still treat their romantic relationship different from how they treat ours. And it does still suck that other people will still put romantic relationships on a pedestal and maybe value them more.

[SomeRandomPunk]

I love being aro, because instead of having to deal with dating or the stress of crushes. I can eat breakfast in bed and watch YouTube on my phone for hours. Which is what I’m doing now even though it’s midnight.

[silentglacierfang]

I love being aromantic because it allows me to be absorbed in what I like to do and not spend so much time and energy on someone for no reason. From all the songs and other media on the concept, it just seems super draining.

[skel_watches]

I’ve definitely had a bit of troubles with my own label as aro since I love to do traditionally romantic actives with friends I’m close to but allowing myself to just love without worrying about having a romantic partner makes me very happy. Also I love both the aro and aroace flags :)

[raccoon_bones]

omg the point about being able to direct love+attention towards personal passions instead of romance is so cool!!! eeee makes me happy just thinking about how much more time i can spend drawing instead of having a partner :D

[morganmeadowes]

Not too long ago, I saw a meme on how to come out as aroace: I am a member of the order of the black ring. I am immune to such things as attraction.
I just love not having to bother with that constant questioning of "is this platonic or romantic attraction? Does this person like me back? What if we break up and it destroys our friendship/friend group?" that seems to be going on in the lives of allo people (according to books) with the added relief of not desiring a romantic relationship, which seems exhausting to me.
I also love the flag (though I actually prefer the asexual and nonbinary flags).
I am looking forward to spending my life living with friends and meeting other arospec people.
I am also looking forward to maybe writing stories with more diverse characters than we see nowadays and writing lots of complex relationships that don’t have to be romantic in nature.
I love discovering a wide rage of types of attraction that many allo people I know don’t bother exploring, like platonic attraction, aesthetic attraction, sensual attraction and so many more!
Those are probably the main reasons why I love being aromantic (as well as asexual).

[main]

had my first February 14th after finding out I'm aroace and just now I realize I dressed up as my flag lol

[shani.moore_]

5:48 this actually explains a lot of my feelings towards my family and I thought that being a romantic is why I feel such strong love for my mum and sister so thank you helping me understand that a bit more

[Sleepy_Chicken]

One reason I love being aromantic is how amazing the flags color pallet is! Like for aro spec awareness week I’m wearing a ton of greens, blacks, grays, and whites. I also love doing fun abstract art with the colors.

[cushmanarmitige]

This is so close to how i feel, i very rarely feel romantic feelings, like almost never an this was great to see someone speak about the positives, love the video.

[schanulsiboi]

Honestly, for me the best thing is not having to deal with allo nonsense (as much)