Dating and Relationships

June 5, 2020

My Quarantine Boyfriend Lost Everything (but Found Me)

I met my quarantine boyfriend in early March, right before everything went down in New York City. Or possibly I met him years earlier when our […]
June 4, 2020

‘His Body Doesn’t Belong to Me’

When my boyfriend walks through the door of our apartment every night, he strips. While I’m still on a Google Hangout with my colleagues, there he […]
May 29, 2020

Love Letter: Should You Text Your Ex?

Quarantine life has left us yearning for human connection, so it’s no surprise that exes have turned to texts as a means of reconnecting. Some in […]
May 22, 2020

Not Saying My Dog Is Cupid, but …

You can tell a lot about a man by how he treats his dogs. My ex-husband called Tilly, our Labrador retriever mix, “pinhead.” He banished her […]
May 18, 2020

The Joy of Perfecting the Sexy Selfie

ImageCredit…Illustration by Shane O’Neill/The New York Times and Adriana Ramic/The New York Times The Joy of Perfecting the Sexy Selfie By Some people are raising little […]
May 15, 2020

Miss Your Friends? Try Being a Teenager in Love

Gabby Rodriguez and Kai Laidhold ask to see each other every day. The answer from their parents is always the same: No. It has been more […]
May 15, 2020

Quarantined Teens in Love and Apart

Gabby Rodriguez and Kai Laidhold ask to see each other every day. The answer from their parents is always the same: No. It has been more […]
May 14, 2020

I Left My Husband Before the Pandemic. Can I Go Back to Him Now?

In February, I left my husband after being married for 18 years. We were teen parents who managed to keep it together, and our three amazing […]
May 13, 2020

Alone.

Claire Manship belted songs out the window. Ketaki Chowkhani began barking at a stray puppy. Blake Mitchell performed in drag. As millions of people grapple with […]
April 29, 2020

Let’s Bury the Hatchet!

It was long overdue, the apology phone call. The last time the Frolkis sisters, Talia and Liza, had exchanged any words was July 2019. And that […]