Dating and Relationships

December 7, 2022

A Bond Thicker Than Blood

Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music ‘We may not have been blood, but I belonged to him before we […]
December 6, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Her Dreams of Infidelity’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Grand Gesture Gone Wrong A month into dating, Paul stood on a treehouse […]
December 4, 2022

Day 4: Tiny Love Stories for the Holiday Season

The holidays are a time of joy and celebration but also often spur feelings of loneliness and longing. As editors of the Modern Love column, we […]
November 30, 2022

No More Hiding

Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music ‘In love there’s no hiding: You have to let someone know who you […]
November 29, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Only Way I’ll Meet a Man’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Hoping for More I worked three teaching jobs and slept in our apartment’s […]
November 25, 2022

In Praise of the 10-Percent Wrong Relationship

We fear imperfection in our love lives. What if we embrace it instead? As a broke, bookish, self-identified Marxist who spent her free time converting to […]
November 24, 2022

It’s the Holiday Season. Time for Couples to Put on Those Matching Pajamas.

Whether hard launching a relationship, recreating a childhood memory or just doing it for the ’Gram, people are embracing a cuffing season tradition. Chanel Sowell, an […]
November 23, 2022

Encore: When Two Open Marriages Collide

Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music “This situation — entering the hospital room of my wife’s lover — risked […]
November 22, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Broke Your Heart, You Broke My Rib’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. My Poor Succulent “Poor thing!” I said, picking up a succulent from its […]
November 16, 2022

Falling for Your Sperm Donor

Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music “My search for a donor stalled because I didn’t have a good feeling […]