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
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Like a very full heart and a flip in my stomach when I see him.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 November 2025 source ↗
It isn’t supposed to hurt, I know that.
Like coming home in every sense.
Like becoming warm after you’ve been cold.
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.
I’m at my happiest in the ocean, and even better if my husband is there throwing me around.
I think we become stars.
Too high an expectation of others and myself.
Curious, confident, cheerful.
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