January 5, 2024

My Bad-Times-Only Boyfriend

Why is my long-ago fling suddenly acting as if he’s my husband? I untangled my IV from the machine and hobbled backward into my crunchy hospital […]
June 2, 2023

How One Couple Overcame Cancer and Found Strength in Loss

Lorenzo Vinti and Gregory DelliCarpini Jr. were married for only two years before they were hit with life’s difficulties, including Mr. Vinti’s cancer diagnosis and the […]
March 22, 2023

How a $100 Bet Saved Our Relationship

Julia Botero, Christina Djossa, Elyssa Dudley and Sara Sarasohn and Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music “From an early age, I […]
November 17, 2022

Cancer, My Husband’s Doctor, and Catherine Deneuve

Watching his oncologist onscreen, I finally saw our lives more fully. It was not until shortly after my husband, Josh, died in the summer of 2021 […]
March 29, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Our Most Mundane Conversations Became Contentious’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. What Lingers Long before her diagnosis, my reliably cheerful friend turned sour. Even […]
May 21, 2021

His Comfort Is Not My Responsibility

A young woman with a prosthetic leg hopes to make the world a more empathetic place. If only she didn’t have to do it on first […]
June 26, 2020

As He Cut My Hair, I Wept

A few weeks ago, I gave myself a crew cut. I didn’t know how long it would be before I could visit a barber and figured […]
September 29, 2017

Modern Love: Taking My Ex Back In (for His Own Good)

Modern Love By NANCY ROMMELMANN Tim was on the other side of the kitchen counter looking at a list I had written of what he should […]
September 23, 2016

Modern Love: When a Couch Is More Than a Couch

Modern Love By NINA RIGGS Were I healthy enough these days, I would be sipping a glass of free wine and running my hands over an […]
June 17, 2016

Modern Love: A Path to Fatherhood, With (Shared) Morning Sickness

Modern Love By DAVID KALISH Three weeks before my wife, Ingrid, and I were to move to Mexico, where a coveted job awaited me, my doctor […]