[ That sure is a question but okay we're trying it. You'd think being married would help with this but it's just something she knows, not something she's ever defined in words. ]

Romance is also called being in love with someone. Or multiple someones. [ Just tossing that in there for nonmonogamy reasons. ] It's when you feel differently about them than you do your friends. For me it's like a little flutter of excitement that I don't have with others. I want to spend time with them even more than everyone else I like. All my friends are special to me, but romance makes things another kind of special. Everything's... magnified.

For me it's also different when I touch or kiss them. I do those things with friends all the time, but when there's romance I look forward to it more and it feels... warm, I guess? Just different. My heart beats faster, sometimes I feel all tingly. [ Not in a gutterbrain way necessarily! Just that Saya has a tendency to touch and jump into bed with people so she frames things that way. ]

...Does that help at all? It's kind of hard to define. It's one of those things you just know when it happens, maybe.