Love (Emotion)

August 27, 2022

How Love Languages Became a Cultural Phenomenon

Love Languages These days, it seems as if everything is a love language. For some, it’s iced coffee. For others, it’s sarcasm. Or a mechanized mattress. […]
August 26, 2022

Lockdown Was Our Romantic Bubble, but Bubbles Burst

Our connection began behind masks, with eyes only, and grew so deep so fast that I began to dread a return to normal here in Shanghai. […]
August 23, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Rewrote My Identity’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Send the Old Stuffie I moved about 1,600 miles with four suitcases filled […]
August 19, 2022

‘A Last Act of Intimate Kindness’

I had barely seen my brother in decades, but when time was short, he let me in. The message I had dreaded for years appeared on […]
August 16, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Want a Divorce’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. ‘Pluck, Bandage, Smile’ My childhood summers were measured in splinters. Gnarled docks and […]
August 12, 2022

Was This a Meet-Cute or Meet Creep?

While I was living in the basement of my university’s library, he watched me sleep. Then he left a note in my shoe. The summer after […]
August 9, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘A Couple With Nothing to Talk About’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Our Silent Fire One recent summer evening, my husband and I were sitting […]
August 5, 2022

Please, God, Help Me Stop Missing Her

As an ultra-Orthodox Jew, I tried to ‘pray my gay away.’ It didn’t work. I was scrolling through psychotherapy memes on Instagram a few years ago […]
August 2, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Fond of the Little Fellow’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Paved Paradise I didn’t want our first kiss to be in a parking […]
July 29, 2022

The Polygraph Test That Saved My Marriage

What a terrifying relief it was to have to tell the truth about everything. “Have you ever kept a secret from your wife?” asked the polygraph […]