When do you think we will see the romance option?

Did she actually ask you to share her bedroll? Otherwise, I think she was just being friendly. I haven't played female Cousland but I played both a female mage, who romanced Alistair, and a female city elf, who romanced Zevran, and both of them got on really well with Morrigan, particularly the latter. It is a long time ago but I think I may even have said she was like a sister to me. Otherwise, perhaps you hit a bug.

I managed to avoid either Leliana or Zevran making pass at my female mage and Zevran ended up as a BFF without any sexy shenanigans. Meanwhile my city elf girl was pretty anti-human but couldn't bring herself to be mean to Alistair as she felt it would be like kicking a puppy, so she got the rose without any real encouragement but just being generally pleasant to him and accepted it without intending it to mean anything (I kept clear of the romance dialogue options). It was Zevran who suggested that Alistair still had the wrong idea about me and I should let him down gently, which I did. Somehow I actually gained approval points in doing this, so I must have done something right.

I still prefer the way the romances were handled in DAO. Also, the fact that you could chat to companions outside camp. After Alistair got knocked out in a fight, I was even able to give him a quick reassuring kiss, which felt more natural to me than getting a flag telling me to chat to my lover or them turning up out of the blue, but no other option in between (in DA2) or stomping around the castle to suggest a bit of alone time followed by a quick cut scene (in DAI).

They likely will not reveal who is romanceable via marketing, but if it's anything like last time, the information will filter out a little at a time over the course of the marketing campaign through a variety of sources. I think we will probably have a pretty solid idea of who is or isn't shortly before launch.

But we have a long way to go and much to learn before we get to that point.

Not that BioWare would ever get away with it, but I'd be completely fine with a romance free game. Not every recipe needs sugar and not every story needs romance. It might also prevent a few nervous breakdowns when certain characters turn out to be uninterested in certain genders.

But either way, before the romance there needs to be a character interesting enough to be romanced anyway.

I think they should keep it a secret and leave some mystery, they show people far too much in my opinion, such as it is.

Still my favorite Awakening companion. Far better than the six actual ones. May or may not have made an Inquisitor based off her.

Well to be fair i doubt that we will temp or even secret companions in DAD. I mean DAI and MEA didn´t have ones so why should DAD pull another Mhari?

Oh, I have little doubt that if Mhari had survived, she would have revealed any number of flaws to stand with classic Bioware Companions. Many of the writers were still in their edgelord phases at the time, David Gaider especially.

This is always going to be an aspect of the relationship unless the PC is not going to be the leader of the group. The alternative, so far as romances go, would be to have them romance someone outside of the group, an advisor or contact of some sort, who is higher status or at least not taking direct orders from the PC. So, for example, if Neve turned out to be a contact in Minrathous rather than a companion, they might give the option of romancing her, thus putting the pair on an equal footing in the relationship.

I would also suggest that a lot depends on how the other person views the power dynamic. I don't think Morrigan ever really saw us as her boss and was quite willing to ditch the relationship and the group generally if things didn't go the way she planned. To an extent this was also true of Zevran if you don't do enough to win him over permanently to your side.  Leliana was convinced you were sent by the Maker, whilst Alistair doesn't have a problem with ditching you as his superior Grey Warden if he doesn't approve of your decision with regard to Loghain (never done this with a romanced Alistair but presume it must be possible).   

With Hawke, each of the romances keep their own independence: Merrill has her own hovel; Isabella continues to hang out in the Hanged Man; Anders has his clinic and Fenris his borrowed mansion. I didn't get the sense that any of them regard Hawke as their superior, although I have argued that certain actions should have resulted in complete rejection rather than losing a few approval points (which makes no difference whatsoever to the relationship once friendship/rivalry is locked in) and the rivalry path can have some awkward scenes with Fenris that could be regarded as borderline abusive.   Who is to say they do not gain benefits from following Hawke that are not merely monetary, particularly after the first act?   In fact, each of them does require you to do something specific that directly benefits them.

So, on the whole, I don't really see the problem with the way relationships are presented between the PC and their companions in terms of the power dynamics, particularly where the companion makes the first move. It would be more of a problem if there was some suggestion of manipulation by the PC as their superior in order to pressurise the companion into the relationship but I don't recall that occurring in any of Bioware's games and doubt it ever would.