Love (Emotion)

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 […]
May 31, 2023

We Dated for Three Years. He Forgot It All.

Julia Botero, Christina Djossa, Elyssa Dudley and Jen Poyant and Dan Powell and Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music ‘To break […]
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” […]