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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Overwhelming, discombobulating, irrational and unreasonable.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 July 2025 source ↗
It’s just this warm whoosh that goes through you and starts just below the navel area, the pit of your tum.
Basking in the sun.
Adolescent love feels like exquisite self-indulgence. Long-term love feels like a warm bath that needs a trickle of extra hot water every now and then.
Feeling you want someone else’s welfare as much and sometimes more than your own.
I’m not fond of snakes.
Hopeful, egalitarian, overweight.
My penchant for having just one too many.
Ulysses by James Joyce, but I might make a start next week – or the week after that …
As not being a total bollix.
As a young actor, again at the Citizens theatre, I was making an exit and a theatregoer leaned over the balcony and said, “You’re terrible!”
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