Heh...anyone in love would love this question I guess :)

I see romantic love as having several dimensions... but in a nutshell for me romantic love is any passionate feeling of intense affection for another person.

It doesn't have to be sexual.
I have what I'd call romantic love for my wife, for my kids and for my good friends which is very non-sexual.
I am very attached to and passionate about these people... they move me... they inspire me... the give me reason to get up in the morning and face the day... they strengthen me to endure the tough times and are the first people I want to share the good times with. They are the people who know my story intimately and who's story I know intimately.
In this non-sexual sence the romance is for me like passion and inspiration for life.

Now as to sexual romance... this is companionship romance... it's all of the above and then something more... something much more.
It's taking absolute joy and delight in another person's very existance on the earth. Everything about them is wonderful to me... every word they utter is precious... everything they think is important to me... everything they desire I want to give them... I want to be someone special in their eyes... I want to share everything of mine with them and have them share everything of theirs with me. I want to be with them all te time. And I want this intimacy to be physical as well (of course as a Christian Boylover I have to deny this part of my romantic love)... but if I didn't have to, I'd want to know every inch of my love... to explore every part of them and to make their physical pleasure my ongoing mission.
This love and feeling this kind of romantic love is to me one of the greatest feelings on the earth.

In practical terms... I feel romantic love for my yf... but of course I have to keep the relationship in a non-sexual place. I delight in every inch of him... and his body is a joy to me as much as everything else about him... but I try and keep sexual distance between us (don't flirt with him, don't touch him inappropriately, don't fantasise about him sexually etc...) and this hurts... and not being able to spend every moment of my life with him hurts... but IT'S WORTH IT for the friendship I have with him. He inspires my worship and I thank God for him all the time.

I think romatic love has to be kept in perspective. There is love that isn't romantic at all... but you give it at much personal cost and self-sacrifice and this is also very rewarding to experience. The love that puts the interests of others above your own. Like... not sexing up my yf... is puttind real love ahead of my romantic love for his benefit and mine. Trying to pursue a sexual relationship with my wife is putting real love ahead of my romantic love... looking at what I can give her for her benefit despite what it may cost me. As a last example... I don't want to discipline my kids... romantically I want them to be happy and free, but I know that this will ultimately do them harm.. they'd become lazy, self-focused and ill-prepared for life... so in real love I discipline them and suffer the cost. In any relationship... romance must balance with real love (and I guess for me as a Christian... real love is obedience to God's truth).

That's my 2 cents worth.
Blessings
Cat.