Love (Emotion)

December 13, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Decided to Be Brutally Honest’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. What Money Can’t Buy I had just returned from six months of rehab. […]
December 9, 2022

‘You Bought the Wrong Nipple Clamps’

Our relationship was impossible, which of course is what made it possible. After the third time Charles and I met, I sent him an email that […]
December 7, 2022

A Bond Thicker Than Blood

Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music ‘We may not have been blood, but I belonged to him before we […]
December 6, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Her Dreams of Infidelity’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Grand Gesture Gone Wrong A month into dating, Paul stood on a treehouse […]
December 4, 2022

Day 4: Tiny Love Stories for the Holiday Season

The holidays are a time of joy and celebration but also often spur feelings of loneliness and longing. As editors of the Modern Love column, we […]
December 2, 2022

‘How Much Was That?’

A family obsessed with the cost of things learns a stark lesson in what’s priceless. My family is obsessed with the cost of things. The two […]
November 30, 2022

No More Hiding

Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music ‘In love there’s no hiding: You have to let someone know who you […]
November 29, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Only Way I’ll Meet a Man’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Hoping for More I worked three teaching jobs and slept in our apartment’s […]
November 25, 2022

In Praise of the 10-Percent Wrong Relationship

We fear imperfection in our love lives. What if we embrace it instead? As a broke, bookish, self-identified Marxist who spent her free time converting to […]
November 23, 2022

Encore: When Two Open Marriages Collide

Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music “This situation — entering the hospital room of my wife’s lover — risked […]