Love (Emotion)

November 19, 2021

He Cared About Me, So I Broke Up With Him

When you’re used to the roller-coaster emotions of bad relationships, it can be hard to believe in anything else. David said that he knew I was […]
November 16, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Only Sort of Hope He’s Happy’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Delayed Deliverance Ticket stubs, foreign coins. Life’s ephemera tossed into a box. After […]
November 16, 2021

Theirs Is a ‘Traditional Untraditional’ Union

The Tony Award-winning actor Daisy Eagan and her husband Keith Bloom, who are in an open relationship, share how they designed a marriage that works for […]
November 12, 2021

The Manny Diaries

Chapter one: This job is hard. Chapter two: Leaving it is harder. I was 24, relatively new to New York City, working a day job I […]
November 9, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘His Skin Against Mine’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. It’s Kind of a Funny Story … So, I’m visiting my friend Donnie […]
November 5, 2021

The Curious Tale of Mr. Kale

He was everything I expected and wanted. So why hasn’t he returned to Whole Foods? I met Mr. Kale on the checkout line at Whole Foods […]
November 2, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘With You, I Can Be a New Person’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Constancy in Candy My grandmother kept a candy bowl on a table by […]
October 29, 2021

A Stranger Looked Like My Twin. That Was Just the Beginning.

How a family secret was unraveled by 23andMe. I was asleep when my identity exploded. One Friday morning in 2019, I awoke in Brooklyn to an […]
October 26, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘At the Halloween Party, Anxious to Go Home’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. ‘A Very Happy Devil’ A shy, uncomfortable Devil fidgeted at the Halloween party, […]
October 22, 2021

Two Wrongs Don’t Make Mr. Right

He wanted to get really serious really fast, which felt good until it didn’t. When my Hinge match said on our first date that he wanted […]