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Are you a romantic?
Yes 55%  55%  [ 41 ]
No 27%  27%  [ 20 ]
Not quite sure 19%  19%  [ 14 ]
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26 Sep 2009, 5:00 am

Would any of you people here consider yourselves as being romantics?



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26 Sep 2009, 5:10 am

Yeah, I'd say a quantitative romantic



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26 Sep 2009, 5:48 am

yup, at times i can be. if i like a person enough my romantic mind has a tendency to warp feeling of like & respect for the person, fuse it together with my hardcore aspie sense of loyalty and it's like it spawns unconditional love on demand. only in the real sense of it and not the selfish self-dillusioned variety.
mind you it doesn't happen casually with everyone, and i have some say in the matter.

at times i wonder why at times i feel a raging sympathy for all of mankind.
like i want to take all of humanity and comfort it in my embrace.
for as i've felt great emotional pain from my AS experiences, it has bred a mind deeply influenced by emotion, and with a deep empathy which leads me to compassionate thought tendencies and naturally i suppose romantic ones as well. i'm not sure, but i can guess.

but at times i also just feel crude, and beast-like on the inside with the whisperings of my primal thoughts and the darker emotions with potential for madness that lurks within us all and adheres reluctantly to the civility that defines the sane. but that is just a passive observation.


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26 Sep 2009, 6:15 am

I've been told I'm very romantic but I didn't believe it. After all, it's easy to mistake psychopathic behaviour for romance! :D


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26 Sep 2009, 7:43 am

I didn't think I cared in the past.

Fact though, I am.

I want to be swept off my feet.



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26 Sep 2009, 7:55 am

I am an utterly hopeless romantic, yes. In fact I proposed after watching a romantic film simply because I couldn't wait.



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26 Sep 2009, 8:23 am

such a romantic, of course with several sometimes complicated conditions for contenders;
they must be good looking in mind, body and/or spirit, make no spelling errors whatsoever, be able to converse brightly about serious intelligent topics, be wacky, able to understand my left field logic, etc, you know the usual stuff



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26 Sep 2009, 9:22 am

define "romantic"


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26 Sep 2009, 9:57 am

Maybe I am, in a bitchy way.



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26 Sep 2009, 10:15 am

:P Let's just say,I'm way too shy to show affection :D


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26 Sep 2009, 12:14 pm

visnofskygirl wrote:
:P Let's just say,I'm way too shy to show affection :D


Same for me. I can't really be sure if I never tried.



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26 Sep 2009, 12:16 pm

I am definitely a romantic.


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26 Sep 2009, 1:35 pm

anna-banana wrote:
define "romantic"


This needs doing. Do you mean romantic like Byron or romantic like flowers and chocolate? I can do both but not at the same time.


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26 Sep 2009, 6:42 pm

I don't think I'm romantic as much as I am sensual, I can't keep my hands to myself sometimes.



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26 Sep 2009, 7:33 pm

In some ways, people say I'm very romantic, e.g. in my concept of science, my idealism about the world... just not in the sense of life relationships.



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28 Sep 2009, 12:34 am

Yes, I am very much a romantic. I didn't realize I was until it was pointed out to me a few months ago. :lol:

I like the little things. Holding hands and kissing. If I feel comfortable, I'm a very sensual person. I like slow dancing, curling up on the couch to watch a movie, cooking together. That kind of stuff makes me happy.

I've never been someone who's needed big grand displays of affection like expensive gifts and things like that. Make me a mix CD, give me a card, text me a note, or go out for ice cream and walk by the lake, and I'm quite content. 8)