Erica
has known since the tender age of 15 that she was asexual - after
realizing that she had never felt sexually attracted to anyone.
And despite trying to force herself to feel some kind of sexual desire
towards a few men in her late teens, she admits that she failed to ever
feel the kind of connection that so many of her peers seemed to
experience
At this point, Erica had almost given up on ever
finding love, as, perhaps unsurprisingly, most men she met ran a mile
when she told them about her total aversion to sex.
'It was such a frustrating period of my life as I knew I was different, I just didn't know why,' she recalls.
'All my friends were experimenting with boyfriends, yet when I even kissed a boy, it just left me cold.
'I still wanted the companionship you get from a partner, I just didn't
want the sex side and I worried I would never ever find anyone who would
be prepared to love and accept me the way I am.'
But in 2002, Erica's world changed when she met Andrew, while the pair
were both living in Melbourne. She admits that she felt as though she
had finally met a man who did love her just the way she was.
And after first living as housemates, the pair became an official couple
in 2009 after Andrew moved to Canada and the duo realized that they
couldn't bear to be apart from one another.
They were married on October 27th 2012.
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