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Is there such a thing as "grey-aromantic"?


Cpt_Crouton

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Hey everyone,

Is there such a thing as a "grey-aromantic"? Like someone who usually wouldn't want to be in a romantic relationship, but if the right person came along, they would want to engage in a romantic relationship

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Cpt_Crouton

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Yes, grayromantic is a valid orientation. It's someone who experiences romantic attraction rarely, and/or under very specific circumstances (such as a kink/fetish).

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Yes but what you described is really called a Demiromantic. Which is when someone can only develop secondary romantic attraction towards someone they have bond with. Greyromantic mean rare or occasional romantic attraction.

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Yes; some ppl specify sexual/asexual or romantic/aromantic after gray to show which side of the spectrum they're closer to. But there is a better word for what you described; flexable aromantic (like hetero-flexable meaning a heterosexual/romantic that's open to the possibility of a same sex relationship; not bisexual/romantic because the attraction is that rare or hasn't happened yet but they're open to the possibility).

And what he described isnt demiromantic; he never mentioned a needed bond, just if a special rarity came along he'd be open to it.

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Yes but what you described is really called a Demiromantic. Which is when someone can only develop secondary romantic attraction towards someone they have bond with. Greyromantic mean rare or occasional romantic attraction.

Thanks, demiromantic was the term I was looking for.
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Yes but what you described is really called a Demiromantic. Which is when someone can only develop secondary romantic attraction towards someone they have bond with. Greyromantic mean rare or occasional romantic attraction.

Thanks, demiromantic was the term I was looking for.

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Sure. I'm basically demiromantic, so that's a kind of grey-aromantic I guess. Zero romantic interest except in exceedingly rare (two) cases.

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