Dating and Relationships

January 23, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Looking for a Casual Fling’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. 365 Dips On a Cape Cod beach last January, I braced for my […]
January 19, 2024

My Relationships Have No Clothes

I have no moral objection to infidelity. For me, sex is just sex. He and I had been friends in graduate school in New Orleans for […]
January 16, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Something Told Me to Stay’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Three-Decade Disagreement Vietnam and New York, our worlds were far apart. Camp […]
January 9, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Remember How Obnoxious I Was?’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Calling It What It Is I’d been a disobedient teenager, eager to rebel […]
January 5, 2024

My Bad-Times-Only Boyfriend

Why is my long-ago fling suddenly acting as if he’s my husband? I untangled my IV from the machine and hobbled backward into my crunchy hospital […]
January 4, 2024

10 Memorable Marriage Proposals

Here are some of the sweetest, funniest and most heartwarming ways that couples who wed in 2023 asked, “Will you marry me?” In 2023, the weddings […]
January 2, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘It All Began So Innocently’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Falling Upward It all began so innocently: snow falling at dusk, a crackling […]
December 29, 2023

The Secret Sorrow of Hotel Rooms

After losing my husband, I just wanted to feel alive. Then I wanted more. My exact words to him on our first date were: “I’m not […]
December 26, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘My First Post-Divorce Christmas’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. He’ll Be Home for Christmas! “I’ll drive; it’s 20 hours and I’ll be […]
December 19, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I’m Shrinking, but I Don’t Tell Him’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Savoring the Pain I can’t help but think of my first love’s coffee […]