Insecurity around money. I have this profound insecurity about not having enough to provide for my family.
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Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’m argumentative.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 April 2025 source ↗
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View all 243 →I am a massive people-pleaser and it brings me nothing but trouble.
I overthink everything.
Very impatient, bossy, always late.
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My husband snoring.
An umbilical cord.
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