Love (Emotion)

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 […]
January 2, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘It All Began So Innocently’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Falling Upward It all began so innocently: snow falling at dusk, a crackling […]
December 29, 2023

The Secret Sorrow of Hotel Rooms

After losing my husband, I just wanted to feel alive. Then I wanted more. My exact words to him on our first date were: “I’m not […]