Love (Emotion)

December 10, 2021

‘I Would Give Anything to Hold Their Hands Again’

A husband and wife find a way to talk to their young sons about an unspeakable event. It could have been any January day — the […]
December 7, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Felt Desire Overshadow Fear’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. What I Now See An aging expatriate in France, I recently started sending […]
December 3, 2021

Was She Just Another Nicely Packaged Pain Delivery System?

I had been burned too badly to believe in love. And yet, believe I did. I was 67. She was 67. Knowing as much as she […]
November 30, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Your Husband Will Probably Leave You Now’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Never Mind the Naysayers “My mother says your husband will probably leave you […]
November 26, 2021

Swimming Upstream in Heels and Skinny Pants

If I were a salmon, I would die for my child. As a human being, I wish I could have. I can’t stop thinking about salmon. […]
November 23, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Forced Cinderella to Scrub the Stage Floor’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Old Roots Bearing Fruit On a brisk November morning, I found myself climbing […]
November 19, 2021

He Cared About Me, So I Broke Up With Him

When you’re used to the roller-coaster emotions of bad relationships, it can be hard to believe in anything else. David said that he knew I was […]
November 16, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Only Sort of Hope He’s Happy’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Delayed Deliverance Ticket stubs, foreign coins. Life’s ephemera tossed into a box. After […]
November 16, 2021

Theirs Is a ‘Traditional Untraditional’ Union

The Tony Award-winning actor Daisy Eagan and her husband Keith Bloom, who are in an open relationship, share how they designed a marriage that works for […]
November 12, 2021

The Manny Diaries

Chapter one: This job is hard. Chapter two: Leaving it is harder. I was 24, relatively new to New York City, working a day job I […]