There are some people you can't just live without, a best/childhood friend or someone you're just close to, but have never been intimate with. You can "love" them, in a sense, but are never really "in love" with them. Intimacy has much to do with it and I don't just mean physical intimacy.
that’s different than how I first looked at it! I kind of viewed the “can’t live without” as more of an immediate red flag. like toxic dependence. Cool
There is a difference, can it not also be possible for both feelings to exist at once?
Can you give me a context?