Dating and Relationships

October 25, 2019

The Chicken’s in the Oven, My Husband’s Out the Door

To celebrate Modern Love’s 15th anniversary this month, we’re publishing a series of special features — three classic essays from the column’s early years and four […]
October 22, 2019

Tiny Love Stories: ‘That Poor Pumpkin Needs Someone to Love It’

When Shame Leads to Kindness My mother and I were driving through Detroit when we stopped at a light and noticed a blind man attempting to […]
October 18, 2019

‘Modern Love’ on the Page, on a Podcast and Now Onscreen

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. The New York Times’s Modern Love […]
October 18, 2019

25 Modern Love Essays to Read if You Want to Laugh, Cringe and Cry

New to Modern Love? These 25 essays should provide a good introduction. You’ll find some of our most read and most shared of all time, and […]
October 15, 2019

Tiny Love Stories: ‘It Was Unsettling to Find Myself Still Single at 36’

More Than I Imagined My son’s first love, at 15, was not what I imagined for him. She came from a family scarred by drug abuse […]
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 […]