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 it’s worth being alive.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 March 2026 source ↗
Safe and peaceful. It gives you a sense of ease.
Not feeling like you have to be anywhere else.
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.
A positive panic attack.
Not being loved.
Impatient, ambitious and happy.
I am so obdurate I do not change my mind.
I understand that you lose the register of hearing that enables you to hear crickets, and when I can’t hear crickets in the summer I’ll be really sad.
I’m monstrously judgmental. It’s like talking to the pope.
Every single morning the sun comes up and you get to try again.
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