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.
Like I would die for them in a nanosecond.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 March 2026 source ↗
Safety, and being able to be completely yourself.
Like nothing else, I guess.
Exhilarating. I’ve been extremely lucky in that the person I love, Annalena, happens to be my wife.
Euphoria, passion and feeling like nothing else in the world matters.
Living in a campervan for a week with Timmy Mallett for a children’s TV show about 40 years ago.
Independent, curious and funny.
I still say yes to too many things.
A fighter pilot.
There are one or two relationships where I’d see the red flags much earlier.
My aeroplane, a Diamond DA42. It’s a twin-engine aircraft and I bought her brand new to fly around the world solo. Very sadly my mum was diagnosed with terminal cancer about six weeks before I was due to take off, in May 2017, and she died early June. After that, I lost interest in doing it.
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