Dating and Relationships

September 13, 2024

Joan Vassos, the First ‘Golden Bachelorette,’ Knows the Show Is a ‘Weird Way to Meet Somebody’

Joan Vassos, a 61-year-old school administrator and grandmother, didn’t find love on “The Golden Bachelor.” She’ll give it another try as the star of ABC’s new […]
September 3, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘A Drunk Dial Followed by Sporadic G-Chats ’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Brian Rea The Place He Swore He’d Left Behind It was 2007, and […]
August 20, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘It Was Scary, the Good Kind’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Brian Rea This, This Is Easy I left a Christian cult. Tried Hinge, […]
August 17, 2024

A Wild Night With Edna O’Brien

On the trail of Ralph Fiennes in 1990s Manhattan, the esteemed novelist pays a visit to a burlesque club. I was terrified the first time I […]
August 6, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Slunk Into Will’s Room and Under His Sheets’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Under His Canopy of Fish During our junior year of college, Will taped […]
July 30, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Make No Apologies’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Love Means Never Saying Sorry “I’m in love with a woman,” my mother […]
July 23, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘He Liked to Give Me Gifts’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Winged Visit It was the day my wife and I were going […]
July 12, 2024

The Psychic Who Predicted My Romantic Future

For a millennial with financial burdens, would a home have to be a house? I wrote a fake name on the sign-in sheet and slipped my […]
July 4, 2024

In This New Dating Show, Balloons Last Only as Long as Romantic Interest

Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! A new dating-show format asks contestants to pop a balloon to signal that they’re not interested. Who said heartbreak had to be […]
June 28, 2024

A Perfect Match, Except for God and Dogs

What happens when deal breakers don’t break the deal? When he wrote early in our correspondence that he thought his religion wasn’t compatible with mine but […]