Feelings developed over many months while working together at the same university and spending a lot of time together. Physical contact includes touching arms, alongside deep affection and enjoyment of doing things together, including imagining holidays. The person does not view him as perfect and sometimes dislikes his behavior, especially around other people. Uncertainty remains about whether the relationship is like a brotherhood friendship or something more. Psychoanalytic psychotherapist Susanna Abse distinguishes explosive, hands-off-each-other love from slow, gentle, pragmatic get-together love, noting popular culture rarely covers the latter. She asks whether being in love implies a sexual relationship and whether there are sexual fantasies, using those answers to clarify the nature of the feelings.
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