My answers will apply to both situations. In some cases, love is not an instant flash of hot desire and fire and starts as a small ember that slowly continues to grow to the point you have a blazing fire. If two people are best of friends and one starts to have feelings for the other, but the other has no romantic feelings, just like a sis or bro instead, then one cannot expect to have a response to the kiss feeling anything like desire, bliss, happiness, romance, love. If both are developing romantic feelings and are best of friends, and kiss to check out that avenue, perhaps, it can feel awkward or one is scared of losing their best friend if the romance part doesnt work out and so one or both are feeling kind of tense, not relaxed, then I can see how a person might not feel anything from a kiss, even though they have feelings for the person.
Humans are emotional creatures and when something weighs heavy on our minds, a negative emotion can be heavily in play, such as fear, frustration, disappointment, sadness, anger, etc... and that can easily cancel out any romantic feelings from a kiss.
And then there is something called chemistry or what I also refer to as pheremone connections. The animal kingdom relies often on pheremones to draw a mate to reproduce. Humans have their own pheremones too. But human pheremones vary enough so that not every person is going to incite the same level of desire and passion in you nor will you be able to incite that kind of passion in all either. Sometimes, the excitement of a new relationship can mimic a good pheremone match, and two people feel something terrific when kissing. But over time, usually weeks but a couple months too, the 'new relationship energy' will fade and there are no such feelings left. This confuses people who thought they felt something at first and later feel nothing when kissing or anything else.
I was once married to a guy I had no pheremone connection to. I was naive, 20 when I married and had no idea that if I felt nothing, that something was wrong, or at the very least I should wait to see if anything changes, but I married him right away. It was a mistake. Nothing changed as I well understand why now.
adviceman49 answered Tuesday September 22 2015, 10:37 am: It is not really abnormal and it also depends on your age. Sometime very young girls, say preteens are more in love with the thought of being in love than actually being in love and work to hard at it.
My advice if the above sounds like you or your girlfriend relax. Girls like a fine wine get better with age.
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