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.
A glow of wellbeing.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 December 2025 source ↗
Wanting to share everything.
Effervescence in the soul.
A dog bounding through the grass on a summer’s day chasing a squirrel.
You suddenly get what people are talking about when they talk about being in love.
A missionary in Africa – I think that was Sunday school-based.
You are good enough.
Years ago, I was trying to get with one of the big agencies and I cobbled together a VHS tape of me in adverts and sobbing in The Bill, and took it United Agents for the attention of Dallas Smith. A week later I went back and said, “Has she looked at the tape?” And they were, like, “Dallas is a he, no he hasn’t and he doesn’t want to,” and handed it back to me.
If there could be a double of me to look after my child when I’m working.
Laziness, lack of empathy, lack of humour.
Lemn Sissay. What happened to him and what he’s done with his life is extraordinary.
Andrew Ridgeley, Roger Taylor, Sara Cox, Ann Patchett, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Bobbi Brown
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