Love (Emotion)

September 27, 2023

Gerry Turner Is the First ‘Golden Bachelor.’ Just Don’t Call Him a Silver Fox.

Gerry Turner, 72, is the lead of ABC’s new dating show — and ready to look for love again. Women keep approaching Gerry Turner in airports, […]
September 26, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Skin to Skin, We Are Drinking Beers at 3 p.m.’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Disdain to Delight The American woman sitting with us at a cafe in […]
September 23, 2023

Inmovilizada por hombres, conocí el miedo y el amor

Creía que ser sexualmente atrevida era un juego que tenía permitido jugar. No tenía idea del castigo que me esperaba, ni de la sorprendente sanación que […]
September 22, 2023

Our 34-Year Age Gap Was Showing

When my husband, turning 80, agreed I could see a younger man, we couldn’t predict the surprising way our lives together would unfold. Nine years ago, […]
September 19, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘To My Surprise, This Charming Man Began to Cry’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Embraced by Haiti A man with a charming accent was fixing my uncharming […]
September 15, 2023

Pinned Under the Bodies of Men

I thought being sexually bold was a game I was allowed to play. I had no idea of the punishment that awaited me — or the […]
September 12, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Know Something She Doesn’t’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Cupid Launches a Cannonball While the other Ph.D. students chatted — dryly — […]
September 8, 2023

Who Is Trusted to Have a Child?

As a married gay man and an emergency pediatrician, I continue to wrestle with expectations of having a ‘traditional’ family life. A few years ago, while […]
September 5, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘All Women Are Psychic’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Cashier Connection I pull up to the neon-lit drive-through past midnight. The young […]
September 1, 2023

Why I Dress (and Act) Like a Man

Tired of being deferential to men in my relationships, I decided to create my own drag king persona. Slow moving, slow talking, with a melancholy sense […]