I think that’s wonderful, anon. I personally think people should be able to express their love and care for people however they want, and to describe their feelings with whatever words they want. I have chosen to start using the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As far as my own life experience has been, people tell me that it’s not typical to want to kiss and cuddle with people you consider your platonic friends. Obviously the line between romantic and platonic is probably different for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have only recently started hearing people talk about being aplatonic and discovered the word for myself. Discovering the concept has really helped me understand a lot about myself and become better able to describe myself, so I’m glad that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
i-have-41-protons: the-bar-sinister: luesmainblog: the-bar-sinister: i-have-41-protons: I’m sorry but wtf are aplatonics. Are you like. Really bad friends. What’s going on here. Somebody pls explain it to me aplatonic people don’t feel the urge to form platonic relationships. We may also[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I only learned about aplatonic as a concept within the last year or so, and it’s made a lot of things about my life a lot clearer and easier to comprehend. I’m happy to boost the visibility, and happy that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t mind at all! The situation you mention with your one friend being someone you had romantic feelings for for a long time– that’s actually a very relatable situation to me. The person I call my “best friend” or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Addressing people as “friend” or “my friend” in the manner of two warriors attending the same victory banquet: we are having a positive, convivial interaction, and I am feeling well disposed and positively toward you and want you to know[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
small-ass-mustelid: Sometimes I feel like I’m the only person who remembers that aplatonic was coined in 2012 on AVEN by an alloromantic asexual to capture their own experiences. That means the first known aplatonic was an ALLOROMANTIC APLATONIC. Yet I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Personal musings on platonic relationships and experiences (as an aplatonic). Friendship: An intense, mutually supportive, emotionally intimate, and potentially physically intimate platonic relationship with the expectation that this relationship will be intentionally sustained, maintained, and refreshed over time, by both[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The queer platonic question brought up something that I’ve been struggling to talk about, which is like, that there’s a word to describe something about myself that I’ve always kind of known, but played off as a joke, or an[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
sorry, I don’t know why you’re asking us this, particularly ^^;; We’re exactly the wrong people to ask. We largely don’t understand platonic relationships at all, queer or otherwise. We’ve recently come to realize we don’t actually know how to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…