Dating and Relationships

April 23, 2021

My Boyfriend Has Two Girlfriends. Should I Be His Third?

My mind could rationalize polyamory, but my heart rebelled. I had been wandering the liquor store for some minutes when the clerk approached and asked if […]
April 20, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘My First Spring Without Her’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. What I Want to Remember I started cleaning our apartment so I could […]
April 16, 2021

Modern Love: I Tried to Filter Him Out

As a Pakistani Muslim, I knew that falling for a Hindu Indian would break me. And it did. We started texting during the early months of […]
April 13, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘You’ll Understand Someday’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Waving From the Other Side On my father’s workdays, he would wait for […]
April 9, 2021

My Ridiculous Dating System Totally Works!

There’s just one catch. Last year, in the middle of the pandemic, I appeared as a guest on a (now-defunct) dating show. With cameras rolling, I […]
April 6, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Relieved About a Friend’s Failure’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words Looking for Someone, Maybe You My boss at the Design Industries Foundation Fighting […]
April 2, 2021

My Choice Isn’t Marriage or Loneliness

I thought I had a classic fear of commitment, but it’s more complicated than that. I broke up with my boyfriend of five years during quarantine, […]
March 30, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Didn’t Want Her to Stay Long’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Our Seder, a Year Later “Why is this night different from all the […]
March 26, 2021

Modern Love: Expecting Long Distance Relationships to End

I kept telling myself not to believe in him. And yet, believe I did. It started with a Facebook message from a boy I had known […]
March 23, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Mommy, Why Don’t You Have a Boyfriend?’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. My Mother, My Friend My first semester of college, I only called my […]