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.
Being accepted for who you are but also being encouraged to continue to grow.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 May 2026 source ↗
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.
Freedom: it’s euphoric.
Like being three and dancing, giddy with joy.
Like nothing’s a problem.
Obsequiousness.
Careless cruelty.
On one of my first jobs, Cold Mountain, I got a wasp in my ear in front of Jude Law. He couldn’t see the wasp so just saw me freak out.
My brother Joe, he’s nine years older than me.
As someone with integrity.
Not playing Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. I am a huge Brando fan and a big Tennessee Williams fan and it’s a part I would love to have a go at. It’s possible I still could but I’m too old, really.
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