Meet the aromantics: ‘I’m not cold – I just don’t have any romantic feelings’

They’ve been labelled heartless or deluded, but an increasing number of people don’t conform to the concepts of true love and marriage. Though that doesn’t always mean not having sex

To some, the thought of not feeling romance may initially seem a little strange. But, for Juliette Arnold, a 19-year-old French psychology student, it is completely natural. She is part of a growing number of people who identify as “aromantic”.

Aromantics define themselves as not feeling any or few romantic inclinations towards other people. “For me, being aromantic is simply not having any, or little, romantic attraction,” Arnold says. “It’s not ‘not having feelings’.”

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