Love (Emotion)

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 […]
July 27, 2022

How to Find the One

Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music “That film sequence was like a portal into an alternate universe, where a […]
July 26, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: Summer Loving

To celebrate this sticky seventh month, we present seven of our favorite summer-themed Tiny Love Stories. When Lies Turn Into Prophecies A very drunk man won’t […]
July 22, 2022

The Case for Being Touched

As a single, 27-year-old Muslim woman, I had never experienced physical intimacy, not even a kiss. And as a television writer, I needed more experiences to […]
July 19, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Just Like Me, but Hotter’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Among the Ivy After a terrible year (I was attacked in my home […]
July 15, 2022

Man With Incredible Beard Desperately Needs Kidney

Maybe mine? At work, the headline flashed across my social media feed: “Man with Incredible Beard in Desperate Need of Kidney.” I closed a tab of […]