Love (Emotion)

February 6, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘You Are Meant to Be With a Woman’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Not-So-Secret Ingredient I eat an egg, over-easy, every morning. In the summer, I […]
February 2, 2024

A Place Where Heartbreak Feels Good

My boyfriend instilled in me a passion for movies. To heal, that’s where I go. Cam and I hadn’t spoken in over a year when he […]
January 30, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘He’s a Minimalist; I’m a Hoarder’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Honey, I Got You Nothing! For our 12th anniversary, I gave my boyfriend […]
January 26, 2024

The Cost of the American Dream? Our Intimacy.

A physical relationship is nearly impossible for a hard-working Bangladeshi taxi driver and his wife, who longed for each other. Certain mornings can seem exceptionally beautiful […]
January 23, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Looking for a Casual Fling’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. 365 Dips On a Cape Cod beach last January, I braced for my […]
January 19, 2024

My Relationships Have No Clothes

I have no moral objection to infidelity. For me, sex is just sex. He and I had been friends in graduate school in New Orleans for […]
January 16, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Something Told Me to Stay’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Three-Decade Disagreement Vietnam and New York, our worlds were far apart. Camp […]
January 12, 2024

Sharing an Airbnb With My Parents for Seven Weeks

Korea was my parents’ country. They wouldn’t need me there as they did in Canada … right? I was sitting in between my parents on a […]
January 9, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Remember How Obnoxious I Was?’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Calling It What It Is I’d been a disobedient teenager, eager to rebel […]
January 5, 2024

My Bad-Times-Only Boyfriend

Why is my long-ago fling suddenly acting as if he’s my husband? I untangled my IV from the machine and hobbled backward into my crunchy hospital […]