Dating and Relationships

January 25, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘An Invitation to His Bed’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Walking Beside Me His freshman year of high school, my brother, Fred, walked […]
January 21, 2022

I’m Getting Married, Mom. Please Cry.

Entering marriage as your mother leaves it can create an emotional disconnect. Over lunch at a French restaurant in Washington’s Glover Park neighborhood, I told my […]
January 18, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Be Grateful We Have Different Last Names’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. What’s in a Name? When I was a newlywed nearly 30 years ago, […]
January 14, 2022

Our Kinder, Gentler, Nobody-Moves-Out Divorce

When the end of a marriage means living on separate floors of the same house. When my ex-husband’s girlfriend stepped out of the bathroom wrapped in […]
January 11, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Long After My Ex Had Stopped Caring’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Solution in Painter’s Tape My Argentine American father always says: “If there’s […]
January 6, 2022

Watching a Partner Change Is Hard. Accepting It Can Be Harder.

We don’t marry one person as much as we marry one version of a person. But accepting the person a partner may become can be more […]
January 4, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Chased Her Shamelessly’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Handwritten Reminder My friend’s annual Christmas card was addressed to “The Perkins […]
December 31, 2021

Tiny Love Stories for the New Year: Fresh Starts and New Beginnings

This week, instead of the usual essay, we’re ushering in the new year with eight Tiny Love Stories about fresh starts. Now It’s All Fresh Fish […]
December 24, 2021

‘The Nutcracker’ and the Sex Tape

A holiday story about passion and other adhesives (featuring an ugly Christmas sweater). I was working backstage at a production of “The Nutcracker” that was being […]
December 21, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Nobody Knows I’m a Lesbian’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Our Rescue Game The year our father left, I’d thrash around on my […]