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 I would die for them in a nanosecond.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 March 2026 source ↗
Like hunger, which feels like anxiousness, which feels like fear, which feels like excitement.
Heady, dizzying, magical. Time stops.
Love to me is knowing who you are and knowing who you ain’t.
Like nothing else, I guess.
Living in a campervan for a week with Timmy Mallett for a children’s TV show about 40 years ago.
There are one or two relationships where I’d see the red flags much earlier.
I still say yes to too many things.
I genuinely can’t remember crying.
I was happiest in every aspect of my life in the 1990s, when I was married to Paddy [King, a management consultant] and we had the two children and my mum lived with us, and Countdown was the biggest show on Channel 4.
A fighter pilot.
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