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 ↗
Like intoxication, sometimes followed by a hangover.
Bees humming in a tree of blossom.
It’s not all soft focus and wheat fields. Love songs can be about hate, fear, envy, lust and anger, because that’s part of love as well.
For me, love is working through things when it’s not going well.
If there could be a double of me to look after my child when I’m working.
A missionary in Africa – I think that was Sunday school-based.
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.
Lemn Sissay. What happened to him and what he’s done with his life is extraordinary.
Speedy, bossy, loving.
Magician’s assistant on a cruise ship for two weeks when I was 19. When I was meant to be being levitated, I was silently crying while pretending to be unconscious as I hung limply off a metal pole. It was bleak.
Andrew Ridgeley, Roger Taylor, Sara Cox, Ann Patchett, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Bobbi Brown
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