The question
How would you describe what love feels like to you?Originally asked
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A Pot Noodle on a cold day.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 April 2025 source ↗
Like nothing else, I guess.
Unqualified. Also, there’s that strange moment when you’re listening to lyrics on Radio 2 and you think, “Ooh, that’s so deep”.
So many different types. When I first met my husband, electric and vital. When I first held my boys in my arms, an overwhelming flood of defiant protection and magic.
Anxiety, mostly, once you have kids.
By people smiling or shaking their heads. I’ll even take rolling their eyes.
Always trying to turn things into a joke.
Being offered a lift by James Acaster.
To people who I’ve made a really quick joke about on stage and hurt.
Quiet, sharp, clumsy.
Healthier food from motorway service stations – I am always going through them late at night and it’s all rubbish.
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