Love (Emotion)

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 […]
December 7, 2022

A Bond Thicker Than Blood

Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music ‘We may not have been blood, but I belonged to him before we […]
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 4, 2022

Day 4: Tiny Love Stories for the Holiday Season

The holidays are a time of joy and celebration but also often spur feelings of loneliness and longing. As editors of the Modern Love column, we […]
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

No More Hiding

Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music ‘In love there’s no hiding: You have to let someone know who you […]
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 […]