Dating and Relationships

January 10, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Luxury of Her Attention’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Postcard from the Future Months into dating, my girlfriend and I sat across […]
January 5, 2023

Tell Us About Your Strangest Terms of Endearment

Do you have a surprising pet name for your loved ones? When you were young, were you called something bizarre? Tell us about it. Pet names […]
January 3, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘A Wife Who Left’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Perfect Fit I’m 5-foot-4. The tallest man I’ve dated seriously was 5-foot-8; […]
January 2, 2023

The Etiquette Guru Who Broke Up With a Boyfriend Over Text

On the ninth day of filming Netflix’s “Mind Your Manners,” the show’s host, the Shanghai etiquette teacher Sara Jane Ho, dumped her on-again-off-again boyfriend of four […]
January 2, 2023

Sara Jane Ho’s ‘Mind Your Manners’ Offers Advice for a Globalized World

On the ninth day of filming Netflix’s “Mind Your Manners,” the show’s host, the Shanghai etiquette teacher Sara Jane Ho, dumped her on-again-off-again boyfriend of four […]
January 2, 2023

The Happiness Challenge: Take Stock of Your Relationships

In 1938, researchers at Harvard set out to learn what makes a person thrive. They recruited 724 participants, a combination of students at Harvard College and […]
December 31, 2022

New Year’s Eve 2023: The State of the Midnight Kiss

Has our modern era dimmed the appeal of making out with a stranger, or are people still eager to participate in the New Year’s Eve tradition? […]
December 30, 2022

Is Something This Good Even Possible?

I kept saying to my friends: “I have no idea why he likes me.” Two summers ago, in June, I rang in my 27th birthday by […]
December 27, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘He Knows Better by Now’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Memory Mea Culpa “Your favorite New Year’s Eve ever?” I asked my […]
December 20, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Meet Me Under the Bridge at 5 a.m.’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. My Unwritten Chapter Before she died at 42, my wife suggested I marry […]