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.
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Safety, and being able to be completely yourself.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 December 2023 source ↗
A Mary Berry victoria sponge.
A deep awareness of all things beautiful and painful.
It feels like home.
Selfless and open, freeing.
As someone who tried, who had dignity, and stuck to what she believed in despite the storms.
Without naming names, some people I’ve put a lot of faith and trust and love into.
The really terrible things that are happening in the Middle East made me cry for two days after 7 October. All those poor children on both sides.
It’s that bad, I’d never repeat it. I’ll just say it was particularly cruel and incredibly racist. It was somebody that I used to date, at the end of the relationship, and it hurt very deeply.
To be led by love and not judgment.
I didn’t enjoy a bar job and glass collecting – people could be really rude.
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