Rhearomantic is an identity on the Aromantic Spectrum, close to demiromantic. People who are rhearomantic are uncomfortable and/or disgusted by romance, while still experiencing romantic attraction. This label does not apply to alloromantic people or people who are completely aromantic. While sometimes compared to Lithromantic, people who are rhearomantic can, and often do want that romance reciprocated. The idea of romance is repellent until they experience that attraction, and can still be opposed to the idea of experiencing romance outside of that attraction.
History and Etymology
A joint definition of the Greek words rhe, meaning “to flow”, and Rhea, the Greek titan of comfort. This joint definition signals rhearomantics’ comfort with romance changing while they experience said romance. Term coined by CallieCat030.