Love (Emotion)

May 24, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘You Never Call Me Anymore’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Sweet and Sour August, 1990. Walking along the Northern Ireland coast, we pass […]
May 20, 2022

No Longer My Mother’s Daughter

“I am transmasculine, which is to say I understand my body even less than I understand my mother.” I recently found a journal entry I wrote […]
May 17, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Begged Him for a Sign’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. My Sweetie We’ve endured lockdowns in Shanghai since March 2022, surfacing with just […]
May 13, 2022

Love Letter: What Was Your Teenage Anthem?

The Modern Love podcast asked listeners to share their favorite songs from their hormonal, lovelorn years. Today’s Love Letter is written by Anna Martin, the host […]
May 13, 2022

I Bet You Think These Songs Are About You

Millie’s Spotify playlists were dropping hints. Weren’t they? If you want to think I’m a narcissist for assuming Millie’s Spotify playlists were about me, go ahead. […]
May 10, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘We Discovered Pleasure’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Making it Official (Again) “OK girls, here’s the scoop,” my mother texted. “Dad […]
May 6, 2022

My Plea for a Sixth Love Language

The winner of our college essay contest explores how for her Syrian family, scattered by war, a WhatsApp group chat — rife with silly videos and […]
May 3, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘We Slow-Danced on the Sidewalk’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Faces I’ll Never Forget Emptying a drawer that for years had sat unsifted, […]
April 29, 2022

From Russia With Mixed Feelings

I begged my husband to leave Rostov-on-Don. Now I would give anything to be back there with him. Seventeen years ago, my husband and I lived […]
April 29, 2022

From Russia With Mixed Feelings

I begged my husband to leave Rostov-on-Don. Now I would give anything to be back there with him. Seventeen years ago, my husband and I lived […]