No, I'm not asexual. But love/romance has always been more important to me than sex, perhaps excluding when I was like 13 years old.
Consensual sex between adults can be one way of expressing love, but it's not the only way. I've never had sex in my life yet, because I don't want to. I think the whole casual sex thing is a load of worthless shit and I want nothing to do with it. Sex is supposed to be an intimate, meaningful, loving act between people who love each other, not a fucking game. People treat sex like it's just another form of entertainment these days, like going to a movie or taking a walk.
I feel like I can easily live without sex, but romantic love is something I've always yearned for. Even when I was a little kid, and I didn't even really understand it or its full implications. I'm also not an attractive person, so I don't think anyone would ever want to have sex with me anyway. But thankfully for me, I don't care about that.
The possibility of me dying alone, overall, is a very real one, which does break my heart. But one of the few things that brings me peace regarding that issue is the fact that I know I will always have friends. I've never really had problems making new friends, and there are friends who are basically family at this point and I know that nothing but death will ever separate me from them, and even that would be only temporary. Or so I choose to believe.