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December 13, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Decided to Be Brutally Honest’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. What Money Can’t Buy I had just returned from six months of rehab. […]
December 9, 2022

‘You Bought the Wrong Nipple Clamps’

Our relationship was impossible, which of course is what made it possible. After the third time Charles and I met, I sent him an email that […]
December 6, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Her Dreams of Infidelity’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Grand Gesture Gone Wrong A month into dating, Paul stood on a treehouse […]
December 2, 2022

‘How Much Was That?’

A family obsessed with the cost of things learns a stark lesson in what’s priceless. My family is obsessed with the cost of things. The two […]
November 30, 2022

Our Children Won’t Stop Bickering Over Our Vacation Condo. Help!

A reader’s five adult children can’t seem to agree on an equitable arrangement for sharing her and her husband’s unused vacation home during the holidays. My […]
November 29, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Only Way I’ll Meet a Man’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Hoping for More I worked three teaching jobs and slept in our apartment’s […]
November 25, 2022

In Praise of the 10-Percent Wrong Relationship

We fear imperfection in our love lives. What if we embrace it instead? As a broke, bookish, self-identified Marxist who spent her free time converting to […]
November 23, 2022

How Can I Get the Men to Pitch In at Our Thanksgiving Table?

A reader bristles at the reluctance of her male relatives and neighborhood husbands to volunteer for cleanup duty after meals she hosts at her home. On […]
November 22, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Broke Your Heart, You Broke My Rib’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. My Poor Succulent “Poor thing!” I said, picking up a succulent from its […]
November 18, 2022

Who’s Afraid of a Lovely Fern?

It’s just a plant — but one that takes me back to the traumatic adolescence I tried so hard to escape. I didn’t want the staghorn […]