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I posted this in the Mikey+LH thread earlier.

So they don't even necessarily have to be dating to be romantic. But realizing that they're romantic, makes it all the more likely they were in love with each other. It does tend to follow, because people tend to like each other (often as friends) before they fall in love with each other, and falling in love becomes that much easier when the emotions are more intense, as they are when they reach a romantic level of intensity. There's also "love at first sight" (infatuation) which is usually just a flood of dopamine in the brain, and when it wears off, people can quickly find they had nothing in common and don't actually like each other.