Through a few conversations with friends about like, attraction and sexuality etc. I've come to realize that for most people (or at least all of my friends), romance and friendship are clearly distinct feelings. Which isn't the case for me?

There's not a single person I'm friends with that I wouldn't mind being closer and/or intimate with, and at the start of essentially all my friendships I've had a phase where I had a genuine crush on them. Or at least what I think is a crush, since I have no dating experience (🏳️‍⚧️ related, in the progress of fixing it), but it lines up with the way romance novels etc. describe being in love. After a while it ebbs of into what is more in line with how people describe platonic love.

It's not like I can really talk to my friends about it, since the vast majority of them are straight women and being like "yeah I've been in love with everyone I've ever been friends with" is not really something I can bring up without potentially making things weird.

So now I'm wondering how others feel about this - are romance and friendship two distinct, separate feelings for you or more of a mostly overlap spectrum like it is for me? I'm asking here because I feel not having like a set group of people that I'm not attracted to but could be friends with is making things more difficult, and maybe fellow bi people might relate more.