It’s that time of year when visions of hearts and flowers dance in our heads, and pop up in ads, and store windows. Certainly love is a spectrum of strong, positive emotional and mental states; from the most sublime virtue, to the deepest interpersonal connection, to a good natured everyday pleasure. But romantic love dominates in our culture when we talk about love. Social pressure prioritizes romantic love above all others, as it’s considered a rite of passage from puberty into adulthood to feel intense attraction for another person. For so many of us the passion and intimacy of a “first love” is significant in our personal development, but tingly feelings and obsessive crushes are clearly not the only way to experience love.

And for that reason, we want to point out that Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week is February 19th - 25th, 2023. We’ve got lots to share about this, so please

read on.