Love (Emotion)

September 8, 2023

Who Is Trusted to Have a Child?

As a married gay man and an emergency pediatrician, I continue to wrestle with expectations of having a ‘traditional’ family life. A few years ago, while […]
September 5, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘All Women Are Psychic’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Cashier Connection I pull up to the neon-lit drive-through past midnight. The young […]
September 1, 2023

Why I Dress (and Act) Like a Man

Tired of being deferential to men in my relationships, I decided to create my own drag king persona. Slow moving, slow talking, with a melancholy sense […]
August 29, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Now That We’re Married, What’s Your Name?’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Solitary Sunset Solitary on my postage stamp porch, I wear Chanel No. 5 […]
August 25, 2023

Putting All My Eggs in the Boyfriend Basket

As my friends left college for exciting jobs and law school, I went to Mexico for a guy. Ten months out of college, I was sitting […]
August 22, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: Oh, August!

To celebrate this bittersweet eighth month, we present eight of our favorite summer-themed Tiny Love Stories. Between the Sunflower Stalks August in a West Virginia sunflower […]
August 18, 2023

Out of the Closet and Into the Garden

My Jamaican mother’s hopes for life in America did not include me being gay. So how would I ever bloom? I came out to my mother […]
August 11, 2023

Never Give Your Child Five Names

If you do, he may never be able to leave you. Thirty-six years ago, heavy with child, I argued with my husband about what to name […]
August 8, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Take a Bath With Me’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Face Like Her Mother’s In the supermarket yesterday, a young woman with […]
August 4, 2023

Would Marrying Her Be a Giant Mistake?

I was warned not to marry outside my faith, but when Jillian was asleep in my bed, I would cry, unable to imagine a world without […]