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.
Selfless and open, freeing.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 December 2023 source ↗
Panic and euphoria.
Comfort, warmth and security.
When you’re younger you confuse love with chaos and passion and, as I’ve gotten older, I realise that love is the opposite: it’s peace and it feels safe, like home.
I am happy to sit in silence with my wife and I think that is a good sign – we are just happy being in each other’s company.
Sensitive, kind, silly.
Cruelty to animals or children.
Probably all of them because I am not big into English literature. I read a lot of self-improvement books.
Nothing’s guaranteed and things change in an instant, and to get used to that and stay in the moment.
Having regrets.
I quite enjoyed all my retail jobs (I worked in H&M and Gap), but the worst times were the sale periods. The summer sales – awful.
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