Love (Emotion)

June 13, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Between Black and White Boys’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Boyhood Memory, 64 Years Later Indiana, summer 1959: It was my first season […]
June 9, 2023

What if I Hadn’t Been There to Catch Them?

I never thought I’d be experiencing the heartache and joys of raising three small children, alone, at 62. I yelled at the children to get into […]
June 7, 2023

The Marriage Proposal That Wasn’t

Julia Botero, Christina Djossa, Elyssa Dudley and Jen Poyant and Dan Powell and Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music ‘Old age […]
June 6, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Watched Him Kiss Someone New’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Half Full or Half Empty? I called him “Cup Guy” because in every […]
June 2, 2023

The Slap That Changed Everything

I kept trying to laugh off and normalize sexual aggression by men. Eventually, it all caught up to me. A few months ago, a man on […]
May 31, 2023

We Dated for Three Years. He Forgot It All.

Julia Botero, Christina Djossa, Elyssa Dudley and Jen Poyant and Dan Powell and Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music ‘To break […]
May 30, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Everyone Knew but Him’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Lucky There Isn’t Another Place I owned a small laundromat called “The Laundromat” […]
May 26, 2023

‘That’s Why I Picked a Younger Man’

My mother’s second husband wasn’t supposed to die before she did. And neither was I. The day after Thanksgiving, my mother called, worried I was going […]
May 23, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Never Saw My Parents Kiss’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Blinking With Love Growing up in the ’50s, I never saw my parents […]
May 19, 2023

My Spectacular Betrayal

We had compromised in our marriages, denied parts of ourselves, often felt lonely, but who didn’t? Weren’t we happy enough? I was sitting at DK Donuts […]