Loneliness

March 16, 2024

They Fell in Love During the Pandemic. Then Things Changed.

Four years after lockdowns and social distancing were implemented worldwide, four readers share their stories about their pandemic relationship regrets. For some people, it wasn’t easy […]
October 31, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Shied Away From Telling Him’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Loud Love My husband is a bit of an introvert. Me? Not so […]
May 30, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Everyone Knew but Him’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Lucky There Isn’t Another Place I owned a small laundromat called “The Laundromat” […]
January 2, 2023

The Happiness Challenge: Take Stock of Your Relationships

In 1938, researchers at Harvard set out to learn what makes a person thrive. They recruited 724 participants, a combination of students at Harvard College and […]
September 26, 2022

How LeVar Burton (and Others) Helped Us Get Through the Pandemic

This is part of the I Want to Thank You series. We asked readers to tell us about who helped get them through the pandemic; these […]
April 15, 2022

The Loneliness of the Locked-Down Single Mother

Having a job, a child and no help during a pandemic can take a toll — but also forge a special bond. It began with a […]
April 19, 2021

Feeling Blah During the Pandemic? It’s Called Languishing

The neglected middle child of mental health can dull your motivation and focus — and it may be the dominant emotion of 2021. At first, I […]
November 28, 2020

Hermits Teach About Solitude, Loneliness, Isolation

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Paul Fredette and Karen Karper Fredette have made some changes to their lives: Ms. Fredette stopped attending her local exercise […]
November 11, 2020

Enjoy the Holidays Alone

Thanksgiving and the holidays that follow are going to look different for everyone this year, but for those who live alone, these changes might hit particularly […]
October 27, 2020

In New York, Roommates Make a Comeback

In New York, where high rents, small apartments and vibrant social lives were, until recently, hallmarks of life, roommates were seen by many as a financial […]