Love (Emotion)

July 14, 2023

My Fetish for a Second Skin

As a gay Korean American, I yearned for the privilege of being heterosexual or white. So I began wearing latex, a new skin. Growing up Korean […]
July 11, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Who I Was Without a Wedding Ring’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Portrait of Father and Son Growing up in the 1950s, I was […]
July 7, 2023

Kissing a Fellow Janitor Amid the Trash

After two assaults, I sought healing on the coldest, driest and windiest continent on earth. On my first day of work in Antarctica, I found a […]
July 5, 2023

The Gift of Holiday Men

Julia Botero, Christina Djossa, Elyssa Dudley and Jen Poyant and Dan Powell and Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music ‘That was […]
July 4, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘My Entire Body Shook With Passionate Interest’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. The Third ‘Fourth’ Is the Charm While I was dancing, another grad student […]
June 30, 2023

Was I Married to a Stranger?

I thought I knew my husband of 20 years. I didn’t — and still don’t. When the lockdown started in March 2020, my husband and I […]
June 28, 2023

Sex on the Run? No, We Parked.

Julia Botero, Christina Djossa, Elyssa Dudley and Jen Poyant and Dan Powell, Rowan Niemisto and Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music ‘For […]
June 27, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Left Any Room She Entered’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Silent Empathy You were a businessman seated next to me on a flight. […]
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 […]