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
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Overwhelming, discombobulating, irrational and unreasonable.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 July 2025 source ↗
Adolescent love feels like exquisite self-indulgence. Long-term love feels like a warm bath that needs a trickle of extra hot water every now and then.
Relief. (Not like that.)
Like hugging your children first thing in the morning and kissing them goodnight.
Like you are standing with an army.
I’m not fond of snakes.
Hopeful, egalitarian, overweight.
As a young actor, again at the Citizens theatre, I was making an exit and a theatregoer leaned over the balcony and said, “You’re terrible!”
Falling off the stage and on to the pianist during the opening number in the Mother Goose pantomime at the Citizens theatre in Glasgow.
Not being able to fend for myself and being a burden to others.
Ulysses by James Joyce, but I might make a start next week – or the week after that …
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