Dating and Relationships

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 21, 2022

It’s Never Too Late to Learn the Tango and Fall in Love

It’s Never Too Late is a series about people who decide to pursue their dreams on their own terms. Nancy Cardwell has made two big changes […]
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

What Happens When a Rock Star Proposes Onstage?

It was something out of a fairy tale, if everyone in fairy tales wore denim and leather and looked like they smoked American Spirits. One minute, […]
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 […]
July 5, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘If You Decide to Flirt With a Stranger’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. My Advice If you decide to flirt with a stranger by sliding into […]
July 1, 2022

A Bet She Couldn’t Resist

For $100, could I stop flirting with men when my mother was around? And could she stop talking about my brush with mortality? “Why aren’t you […]
June 30, 2022

Amber Rose Is Not Who You Think She Is

It was 10 years ago that the host of a popular morning radio show told Amber Rose during an interview that, until recently, he thought she […]