Love (Emotion)

January 5, 2023

Tell Us About Your Strangest Terms of Endearment

Do you have a surprising pet name for your loved ones? When you were young, were you called something bizarre? Tell us about it. Pet names […]
January 3, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘A Wife Who Left’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Perfect Fit I’m 5-foot-4. The tallest man I’ve dated seriously was 5-foot-8; […]
December 30, 2022

Is Something This Good Even Possible?

I kept saying to my friends: “I have no idea why he likes me.” Two summers ago, in June, I rang in my 27th birthday by […]
December 27, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘He Knows Better by Now’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Memory Mea Culpa “Your favorite New Year’s Eve ever?” I asked my […]
December 23, 2022

When a Doorbell’s Ring Means Hope

It was as if someone was saying to us, “You are seen. You are loved.” The doorbell rang one mid-December evening. I frequently had unexpected visitors […]
December 20, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Meet Me Under the Bridge at 5 a.m.’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. My Unwritten Chapter Before she died at 42, my wife suggested I marry […]
December 16, 2022

My Stint as the Adulterous Flavor-of-the-Month

I was trying to have an experience and ended up having a life. Enrique was married, so I shouldn’t have been surprised when he dumped me. […]
December 14, 2022

Your Weirdest Dates

Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music “We had never spent the night together, and now our next date would […]
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 […]