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For me, aside from the general RWA definition of "a central love story with an emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending," genre romances are about creating, building, and maintaining romantic relationships.
You can certainly write a romance about building and maintaining a romantic relationship after the first glow of creating it--and there are books that do that.
What amergina said. Hell, I have two romances that start with married couples separating after 10+ years, and the story is them coming back to each other. As long as the relationship is the core of the story and the characters end up together...yeah, it works for me as a romance.