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 ↗
It comes in flashes, so it feels fleeting.
The highest of highs and the lowest of lows.
Love is understanding, authenticity and being able to be exactly who you are with no editing – and it’s a gift.
An impenetrable team.
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.
Each time I gave birth.
Kind, thoughtful and gave damn good advice.
One after the other, thoughts come banging in – and it’s no sleep for you tonight, dearie.
A Biba dress when I really couldn’t afford it. It was every scrap of my money and I’ve never parted with it.
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.
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