Lover in government leaving note - feeling the pressure (9)
I believe the answer is:
stressing
'feeling the pressure' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with human feelings as well as being present participle verbs.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'lover in government leaving note' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'in' is within the answer.
'government' could be 'g' (abbreviation for government) and 'g' is found in the answer.
'note' could be 're' (as in do-re-mi) and 're' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for stressing that I've seen before include "Emphasising" , "Laying emphasis on, say a syllable" .)