Love (Emotion)

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 […]
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 […]