Love (Emotion)

July 4, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘My Entire Body Shook With Passionate Interest’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. The Third ‘Fourth’ Is the Charm While I was dancing, another grad student […]
June 30, 2023

Was I Married to a Stranger?

I thought I knew my husband of 20 years. I didn’t — and still don’t. When the lockdown started in March 2020, my husband and I […]
June 28, 2023

Sex on the Run? No, We Parked.

Julia Botero, Christina Djossa, Elyssa Dudley and Jen Poyant and Dan Powell, Rowan Niemisto and Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music ‘For […]
June 27, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Left Any Room She Entered’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Silent Empathy You were a businessman seated next to me on a flight. […]
June 23, 2023

My Last Shopping List for Him

For exhuming my husband’s bones, I was told to bring a bottle of red wine, chlorine, powdered soap and a white bedsheet. Even in death, your […]
June 21, 2023

What I Got Wrong About My Parents’ Marriage

Julia Botero, Christina Djossa, Elyssa Dudley and Jen Poyant and Dan Powell and Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music ‘The space […]
June 20, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Wore an Orange Wig’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Rare Chance My oldest child and I drove from Massachusetts to New […]
June 16, 2023

How My Father and I Drew a New Life

After my mother died, my father had a choice: Give up or reinvent himself. When I was 13, my mother learned that she had multiple sclerosis. […]
June 14, 2023

For a 30-Year-Old Virgin, It’s Now or Never

Julia Botero, Christina Djossa and Jen Poyant and Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop, Rowan Niemisto, Pat McCusker and Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music […]
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 […]