Love (Emotion)

July 12, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Plenty of Parents Don’t Like Their Children’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. I Know Which “You’ll know when he’s ‘the one’,” my mother said. She […]
July 8, 2022

Losing the Pregnancy, the Marriage and the Pearls

At 18, I didn’t want to be the captain of my own fate. Fourteen years later, I do, and am. My first job after college was […]
July 5, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘If You Decide to Flirt With a Stranger’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. My Advice If you decide to flirt with a stranger by sliding into […]
July 1, 2022

A Bet She Couldn’t Resist

For $100, could I stop flirting with men when my mother was around? And could she stop talking about my brush with mortality? “Why aren’t you […]
June 28, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘We Should Drop the Charade’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. That’s One Way to Propose Although they knew we were living together, my […]
June 24, 2022

This Is How We Talk About Ending Things

First we agree to stop seeing each other. Then we pretend we never had that conversation. We decided to go to 7-11 to restock our caffeine […]
June 24, 2022

This Is How We Talk About Ending Things

First we agree to stop seeing each other. Then we pretend we never had that conversation. We decided to go to 7-11 to restock our caffeine […]
June 21, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Get So Weird Near Girls’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. My Wise Younger Self I flew home from Berlin to Vancouver after two […]
June 17, 2022

A Texting Lifeline During a Difficult Time

As her father struggled with cancer, a flirtation provided distraction — and then something more. I chose my college based on the vibes of the people […]
June 14, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘A Woman Who Had Only Dated Men’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Seen by a 7-Year-Old Transaction complete, the little girl grips her bag of […]