People taking my friendship for granted and neglecting me to pursue romantic relationships, because in the culture my country's created, romantic love makes a person 'complete' and themes of friendship are seen as being meant for children, is one fear that tends to weight a bit heavily.
I'd like a queerplatonic partner. But I'm scared that they'd leave me because we think of romance as 'the next level' or whatever, and they wouldn't take the relationship as seriously as I would and only see it as indulging someone who was being naive, or would leave me because they want 'something more' that I can't or am uncomfortable with providing, no matter how much I do love them or value that relationship.

...Once in the sixth grade, a boy who I was good friends with randomly started bullying me out of nowhere. I'm not sure why. I think maybe I was trying to talk to him too much and he needed space.