Love (Emotion)

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 […]
November 23, 2022

Tiny Gratitude Stories: What Readers Are Thankful for This Year

We asked Times readers to tell us what they were thankful for this year, in fewer than 100 words — a storytelling style popularized by The […]
November 22, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Broke Your Heart, You Broke My Rib’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. My Poor Succulent “Poor thing!” I said, picking up a succulent from its […]
November 18, 2022

Who’s Afraid of a Lovely Fern?

It’s just a plant — but one that takes me back to the traumatic adolescence I tried so hard to escape. I didn’t want the staghorn […]
November 16, 2022

Falling for Your Sperm Donor

Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music “My search for a donor stalled because I didn’t have a good feeling […]
November 15, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Why Aren’t You Married?’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Forever Intertwined My first friends were my cousins and siblings. After eating early […]
November 11, 2022

Failing in Marriage Does Not Mean Failing at Marriage

My wife has kicked me out five times. Another time I left on my own. Why are we still together? Alone one evening in early spring, […]
November 9, 2022

Modern Love Podcast: What to Do With the Time We Get

Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music ‘In our cozy bed, my disability disappears behind nuzzles and entwined legs. We […]
November 8, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Men I’ve Begged to Stay’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Across the Aisle Laura and I spent the fall of 1960 bantering about […]