Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Romantic, in the sense of romantic love, is often used as a contrast to sexual love, or lust, as the case may be. Romantic love generally means both an emotional and sexual love, as opposed to Platonic love. See also: romantic relationship the idealization of romantic love romantic love and marriage, romantic love vs. marriage limerence erotomania romantic novels This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.