Dating and Relationships

October 3, 2019

What Does Having a Boyfriend Have to Do With Sleep?

Owen Dennis Riley, 17, has never had a girlfriend. But he plays a boyfriend to at least half a million subscribers on YouTube. He brings you […]
May 24, 2018

Why Were the Royal Exes at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Wedding?

Cressida Bonas and Chelsy Davy went to the chapel, too. To watch their former beau marry the American actress. Some might call it closure.
January 19, 2018

Modern Love: The Bike That Saved My Life

Advertisement Two years ago, in January, my husband and I walked into a foreclosed house on a tree-lined street in Bedford-Stuyvesant that no one had lived […]
December 27, 2017

Modern Love: 10 Ways to Love Better

Remarkable images from 2017, from Donald Trump Jr. to Nicki Minaj to Idris Elba to this one chihuahua. The 62nd International Debutante Ball held at the […]
December 21, 2017

Instagram Is Now a Dating Platform, Too. Here’s How to Navigate It.

Advertisement Last April, Roberto Forgione noticed that someone who had ghosted him was looking at his Instagram Stories — the brief, casual updates that hang around […]
December 8, 2017

Modern Love: He Showed Me His Tiles, So I Showed Him Mine

Advertisement “I bet you’re good at Scrabble,” I said to my therapist. For almost a decade I had watched him synthesize our group’s emotional themes, quote […]
December 7, 2017

Social Q’s: Will Y‘All Please Stop Yammering About Resilience?

Advertisement This summer, I lost a great job, and my boyfriend dumped me. These events weren’t linked, though the job loss may have hurried my boyfriend […]
November 24, 2017

Modern Love: Winning the College Contest Means Everything Is Rosy, Right?

Advertisement Modern Love has held four college essay contests over the last 10 years. We checked in with two winners to see how telling their stories […]
November 24, 2017

Modern Love: An Optimist’s Guide to Divorce

Advertisement Beka told me about her self-care plans for the day of her final divorce hearing as we were getting pedicures. Her two daughters sat between […]
November 17, 2017

Modern Love: 17 Million Frozen Sperm Await the Perfect Moment

Modern Love By LAURIE WAX Every other month I receive two vials of frozen sperm in a nitrogen tank, which is then emptied, the vials labeled […]