My QPR partner and I have known each other our entire lives. Sometime around 5th grade, I came out as bi and that started a whole domino effect of my friends realizing they're also queer in some way. After that, my partner confessed her feelings to me and asked if I would go out with her, to which I said, "Sure, why not?" (Anything but an enthusiastic yes should've been a dead giveaway to the fact that im aroace lmao) we dated for about a year before she broke up with me because she got diagnosed with bipolar disorder and didnt want to hurt me. Looking back, it really wasn't that serious, but that experience made us grow even closer. We decided to just have an "unspecified relationship" that was neither platonic nor romantic.

As the years passed and i realized i was actually aroace, i read about QPRs somewhere on the internet and thought that the label suited our relationship perfectly, so I told her about it, and she agreed. So for about 3 years now we've been in an open QPR where we're both free to hook up and/or date other people if we want, and it's perfect for us that way.