Love (Emotion)

August 5, 2022

Please, God, Help Me Stop Missing Her

As an ultra-Orthodox Jew, I tried to ‘pray my gay away.’ It didn’t work. I was scrolling through psychotherapy memes on Instagram a few years ago […]
August 2, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Fond of the Little Fellow’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Paved Paradise I didn’t want our first kiss to be in a parking […]
July 29, 2022

The Polygraph Test That Saved My Marriage

What a terrifying relief it was to have to tell the truth about everything. “Have you ever kept a secret from your wife?” asked the polygraph […]
July 27, 2022

How to Find the One

Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music “That film sequence was like a portal into an alternate universe, where a […]
July 26, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: Summer Loving

To celebrate this sticky seventh month, we present seven of our favorite summer-themed Tiny Love Stories. When Lies Turn Into Prophecies A very drunk man won’t […]
July 22, 2022

The Case for Being Touched

As a single, 27-year-old Muslim woman, I had never experienced physical intimacy, not even a kiss. And as a television writer, I needed more experiences to […]
July 19, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Just Like Me, but Hotter’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Among the Ivy After a terrible year (I was attacked in my home […]
July 15, 2022

Man With Incredible Beard Desperately Needs Kidney

Maybe mine? At work, the headline flashed across my social media feed: “Man with Incredible Beard in Desperate Need of Kidney.” I closed a tab of […]
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 […]