Is there any more to relationships than sex?
I am beginning to think that the only reason we get together and have romantic love relationships is sex. We are as a race supposed to re-produce, it is in our nature. So clearly re-production is a built in, instinctive behaviour and if it were not for the rules imposed on us by our society, then we would all be running around shagging all over the place. When you look at the building blocks of a relationship, we have friendship and companionship, we can even love someone in a plutonic relationship, as a friend. It is only when we have sex with someone that it is considered anything more than a friendship, so the only difference between a friendship and a romantic love type relationship, is sex.
Can anyone tell me if there is any more to it, for them? Is there anything that happens in a romantic love relationship apart from sex, that would not happen in a regular close friendship?