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.
Safety or alarm, I can never decide which.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 July 2026 source ↗
When somebody runs you a bath and orders a takeaway after a long day.
Like hunger, which feels like anxiousness, which feels like fear, which feels like excitement.
There are types: there is the world-being-comfortable type of love and there’s the lust-and-passion type of love – I think I like that one better.
It feels healthy and it makes your body tingle and you feel excited to be alive.
Did I behave in the right way?
For the words to fly from my fingers as just occasionally they do.
Life’s too short to take offence.
Last week, when I decided to rewrite the children’s book I’ve been working on.
Sorry is such an underrated word – I use it liberally.
Small, determined, lucky.
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