The question
How would you describe what love feels like to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Warmth and confidence.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 February 2026 source ↗
Safety, and being able to be completely yourself.
A warm blanket.
When you can barely stand to look at someone without turning away to catch your breath.
The unguiltiest pleasure.
At university in the 60s, I thought social justice was going to improve exponentially. How wrong I was.
Edward Bond, the playwright, said I was like a turd flowing on the effluent of British culture.
Curious, energetic, droll.
In despair, because of my wife’s illness.
To my father, who was aggressively indifferent to what I was doing. He did say sorry to me when he was dying and I don’t think I was very gracious.
The rest is silence.
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