Romantically Driven/Sexually Driven

[Cognizant]

When dating someone, do you/your relationships tend to be more romantically focused (spend time being in love with each other and doing stuff you both actively enjoy), or sexually focused (theres romantic feelings, but sex drives your relationship)?

What do you like your relationships to be like?

I am more romantically driven, but my partners tend to be more sexually driven which can cause some tension at times. Like perhaps I'll just wanna cuddle and watch TV, but they'll wanna have sex and if I say no they'll be slightly disappointed.
I need to work on dating people who will have a better balance of being romantic and being sexy.

[SethfromMI]

as much as I have sex with my gf we are very romantic with each other

[Melodic]

I'm gonna be honest here and say I really only had 2 serious relationships and the one that wasn't long distance was more sex driven than anything. However, I hated it and I hope to someday hold a romantic relationship with somebody.

[ImCoolBeans]

I've been in both, and depending on the relationship I guess I'm fine with either. I tend to be a romantic kind of person, but probably would not say no if my partner asked. I think I'm fairly balanced between the two.

[Svan]

I guess both... I am romantically driven with people I actually care about, but sexually driven when I "want what I want", so to speak.

[Emerald Dream]

I've experienced both, and I can understand the desire for either one. Personally, I like there to be elements of both kinds of relationship in a potential partner.

[DoodleSnap]

I would consider myself more romantically driven, but I think that sex can be romantic too. Being able to be comfortable sexually, and be free and honest in such a human way with someone is very romantic, in my opinion.

[Paladino]

I think there needs to be a balance between the two for a relationship to work properly & thats what I try to do.

[churris]

I'm kinda more sexually driven, I'm the one that usually asks but I don't think he minds at all. That said, sometimes we can't do it in a period of time due to circumstances (place, time etc) and we just hang out.

I do think that sex can be romantic too, though. I mean, we usually cuddle a lot, eat ice cream, watch Instagram or any other number of things in between sex.

[jordanhardy]

I'd say I'm more sexually driven. I tend to have many short relationships based on sex compared to long term relationships with love and romance. I have had a few relationships though where the sex didn't matter.

[becky123]

Me and the partners I've had are sexually driven. I'm usually in short term relationships but they're always sexual. we can't be together if we didn't do it tbh

[Vermilion]

Romantically for me however I'm not that bothered about a romantic relationship at the minute I'd rather just have a shorter sexually relationship

[Polski101]

Romance and sex merge into one with relationships I'm in. I'm very close to someone now with cuddling and just being togethe always leading to something sexual, not actually me but the other person let's say, but I don't mind of course! This is the way, or in a similar way that relationships have worked to me, around 50-50.

[Rallo]

Both.
Sometimes we just want to talk for hours about the most random things and both just say cute things and stuff, other times we want to simply have sex and nothing else. At times it can even be both at the same time (which is what I consider the best kind of relationship), it'll start off as just cute cheesy comments and progress into more sexual comments, next thing you know... Yeah.
That's the kind of relationships I love.