Dating and Relationships

July 15, 2022

Man With Incredible Beard Desperately Needs Kidney

Maybe mine? At work, the headline flashed across my social media feed: “Man with Incredible Beard in Desperate Need of Kidney.” I closed a tab of […]
July 12, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Plenty of Parents Don’t Like Their Children’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. I Know Which “You’ll know when he’s ‘the one’,” my mother said. She […]
July 8, 2022

What Happens When a Rock Star Proposes Onstage?

It was something out of a fairy tale, if everyone in fairy tales wore denim and leather and looked like they smoked American Spirits. One minute, […]
July 8, 2022

Losing the Pregnancy, the Marriage and the Pearls

At 18, I didn’t want to be the captain of my own fate. Fourteen years later, I do, and am. My first job after college was […]
July 5, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘If You Decide to Flirt With a Stranger’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. My Advice If you decide to flirt with a stranger by sliding into […]
July 1, 2022

A Bet She Couldn’t Resist

For $100, could I stop flirting with men when my mother was around? And could she stop talking about my brush with mortality? “Why aren’t you […]
June 30, 2022

Amber Rose Is Not Who You Think She Is

It was 10 years ago that the host of a popular morning radio show told Amber Rose during an interview that, until recently, he thought she […]
June 28, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘We Should Drop the Charade’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. That’s One Way to Propose Although they knew we were living together, my […]
June 24, 2022

This Is How We Talk About Ending Things

First we agree to stop seeing each other. Then we pretend we never had that conversation. We decided to go to 7-11 to restock our caffeine […]
June 24, 2022

This Is How We Talk About Ending Things

First we agree to stop seeing each other. Then we pretend we never had that conversation. We decided to go to 7-11 to restock our caffeine […]