
Depression Support Group
Depression is a real and debilitating condition that is often misunderstood by family and friends. Its meaning can range from a prolonged period of sadness to an actual mental illness with specific symptoms. Find and share experiences with others who are going through the same struggles.
Look how deeply you can love your parents, or a child or a sibling...there is no sex involved there and yet the love is deep.
One of these dear, dear friends of mine--I felt so much for him, except physical attraction--overtly anyway. I admired him physically. Maybe I could have found it in me if I crossed that bridge in our relationship. (he wasn't an unattractive person either...)--When I was on the phone with him, in my heart, he was my guy (mentally, because we never were physical.) When I was with him, I loved being near him, I loved his presence, I loved being hugged by him. It was weird though, it was more like having been a couple for a million years--but I even had butterflies for phone calls and time spent together. One of the last conversations I had with him, I told him that I always figured that I would marry him when I was sixty. I felt so strongly for him, but I felt we both had so many things to do in a variety of directions (I don't mean other partners to experience--just life)...He told me, "It's good to know you ever even entertained the idea." I can still hear his voice in my head. He died in a fire not too long after that. That was 12 years ago. I still miss him so much--like he was my soul mate. Sometimes I think he was my other wing, and I have felt off kilter in life since he died. (I don't brood endlessly, but he is always in my mind.) I am glad I told him about my thoughts--that I valued him and connected to him on that level. It is a confusing thing to feel so strongly for someone, but not to have that overwhelming physical attraction.
So anyway...yeah. Totally possible.
love and sex are 2 completely different things, you can have sex with anyone but you can fall in love with very few people.
We moved from "just friends" to never parted with just one kiss. Don't know where the electricity was hiding but he still makes me weak in the knees after several decades.