Love (Emotion)

June 23, 2023

My Last Shopping List for Him

For exhuming my husband’s bones, I was told to bring a bottle of red wine, chlorine, powdered soap and a white bedsheet. Even in death, your […]
June 21, 2023

What I Got Wrong About My Parents’ Marriage

Julia Botero, Christina Djossa, Elyssa Dudley and Jen Poyant and Dan Powell and Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music ‘The space […]
June 20, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Wore an Orange Wig’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Rare Chance My oldest child and I drove from Massachusetts to New […]
June 16, 2023

How My Father and I Drew a New Life

After my mother died, my father had a choice: Give up or reinvent himself. When I was 13, my mother learned that she had multiple sclerosis. […]
June 14, 2023

For a 30-Year-Old Virgin, It’s Now or Never

Julia Botero, Christina Djossa and Jen Poyant and Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop, Rowan Niemisto, Pat McCusker and Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music […]
June 13, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Between Black and White Boys’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Boyhood Memory, 64 Years Later Indiana, summer 1959: It was my first season […]
June 9, 2023

What if I Hadn’t Been There to Catch Them?

I never thought I’d be experiencing the heartache and joys of raising three small children, alone, at 62. I yelled at the children to get into […]
June 7, 2023

The Marriage Proposal That Wasn’t

Julia Botero, Christina Djossa, Elyssa Dudley and Jen Poyant and Dan Powell and Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music ‘Old age […]
June 6, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Watched Him Kiss Someone New’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Half Full or Half Empty? I called him “Cup Guy” because in every […]
June 2, 2023

The Slap That Changed Everything

I kept trying to laugh off and normalize sexual aggression by men. Eventually, it all caught up to me. A few months ago, a man on […]