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.
Adolescent love feels like exquisite self-indulgence. Long-term love feels like a warm bath that needs a trickle of extra hot water every now and then.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2017 source ↗
Real love feels like freedom.
A full belly and a nice nap.
Can’t remember.
Warm, sugary, fierce, protective.
An actor. Then I grew out of that and became one by default. Or sort of one: “Not really an actor”, said Michael Billington.
I’ll be at my happiest today, and probably my gloomiest at some point today, too.
Sorry, I’m British and middle class, so I’ve already apologised to virtually everybody I have ever met.
The next morning. It rarely turns out as bad as I think it’s going to be.
No songs, please. Don’t make a fuss.
As a charming, helpful, solicitous, generous, loving, carefree and constantly funny companion, lover and father. Some hope of that.
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