Did anyone else think people were just making up romantic feelings for the movies.

I distinctly remember thinking, "Oh, people don't really feel like that, they just made that up for Hollywood." It took me an embarrassingly long time to realise that - at least to the people who experience them - romantic feelings are real. I genuinely thought people just fooled themselves into thinking they were in "love".

I'm still convinced a lot less people feel limerence than we think. I'm not trying to hate on asexuals or saying limerence is fake, I'm just saying that it's less common than romance culture would have us believe.