A Love Beyond Romance: Deep Connection & Friendship

Sometimes I think about them and am immediately filled with so much yearning that it crushes my soul like a tin can and guts me alive, knowing that the words I have for my feelings could never be said because the connotations bastardize it to something more "normal". It's not romantic. It's not platonic. It's the type of love where we could talk for hours about nothing and understand each word. It's the type of love where time could melt around us and all that would matter would be each other's companies. It's the type of love where every waking moment with them makes my life that much brighter, and the type of love whose presence reminds me that the world is okay sometimes. Everyday is better with them in it, and even if we're sitting in perfect silence together, I'm still better off in their company. But, of course, I can't say that. Because that makes it sound romantic. Say I'm in denial all yu want, I know what I'm feeling. I don't want kisses or sex or for them to profess their love to me with a bouquet of roses in front of a parisian sunset. I just want the kind of friendship that historians look back on and misinterpret as romance. And that's when I realize I either need to eat or sleept

@oddgees Wonderful Human. You bring out worlds of emotion I couldn't put my hands to type. 🤌 I think they would respect and love seeing someone admire them as you describe

Absolutely beautiful

I feel this all the time, though I'm in a spot where that person and those closest to me understand as well. So I feel lucky to have that at the very least.

🥹❤️‍🔥 This post may have inspired a possible reconciliation with an old friend of mine. The emotion you described here is epic.