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.
Like you’ve got hot-water bottles all over you.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 June 2025 source ↗
There is an ease to it. It’s not all butterflies and sky rockets, it’s more like absolute comfort.
Like coming home in every sense.
Warmth and confidence.
Laughing and silliness.
Carlos Acosta, for his incredible achievement in dance.
Kind, thoughtful and gave damn good advice.
In school, I was 11, and we had to paint a picture of family life. My painting was held up to the class and I was told it looked like a spider with ink on its feet had walked across the page. It was done so viciously – humiliating.
Being let go from Strictly.
In a Dagenham factory at 6am, picking soldiers’ greatcoats from wars around the world to sell at the market in Chelsea. I smelled like mothballs, and no one would come near me.
I play Classic FM in the car – emotional music brings me to tears thinking about people I’ve loved and lost.
Robert Peston, Peter Sarsgaard, Emma Bunton, Bryn Terfel, Hamza Yassin, Marina Abramović
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