I think I'm aro and don't know how to tell my partner
I've been in this relationship for a year, we were friends before this and our younger brothers are friends too. I'm pretty sure I'm aro but I don't know if I want to change our relationship.
Before we got together we would cuddle and they would fall asleep on my lap. Not much has changed since then but I don't know if It was ever actually romantic feelings or just a need to be wanted.
I do want to get a house with them and adopt cats and teenagers, but this feeling could be directed at anyone of my close friends. I want to lead a domestic life but I don't want it to be labeled as romantic.
I think we could continue our relationship as a qpr, but I don't know how to bring that up without messing with my partner's emotional state. I resently mentioned in passing that I might be aro and they kinda started crying. I feel like I might be conveying that I don't love them anymore but that's not it, it's mostly society's standards of that sort of relationships.
I just want help talking it through with them without damaging our relationship.
I realize that this is not the topic usually covered here but I thought it might be close enough for people to relate to and give advice.
Thanks in advance, Spoon.๐๐ฟ๏ธ๐