I love reading romance, but have a hard time writing it. I tend to be bored by strictly-romantic plots and prefer fics where other things are also happening. Those are the stories I try to write, and so I tend to get distracted by all the other stuff and neglect the romance.

That makes total sense. Like, obviously, I adore shippy fic but I love conflict that doesn’t have to do with the romance. Give me a murder mystery or an action adventure or interpersonal drama anyday of the week and I will eat it up. (My favorite published books are not romances but I’ve been known to read them every once in a while.)  I’ll still read stuff with romance at the center, but I cannot write that very well. 

But I definitely don’t think there’s anything wrong with putting romance in the secondary plot. I think it’s more fun, personally.