Love (Emotion)

February 16, 2024

My Husband Is Two Years Older Than My Son

Our 19-year age gap feels treacherous and gossip inducing — and is also the best thing that’s ever happened to me. More than two years into […]
February 14, 2024

‘Modern Love Podcast’: Un-Marry Me!

Julia Botero, Christina Djossa, Reva Goldberg and Mark Pagán, Paula Szuchman and Dan Powell, Marion Lozano, Pat McCusker and Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify I said, ‘We’re separating?’ […]
February 13, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Middle of a Post-Divorce Breakdown’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Sweetheart Reminder on Valentine’s Day “Hello?” Mom repeated into the phone. The […]
February 6, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘You Are Meant to Be With a Woman’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Not-So-Secret Ingredient I eat an egg, over-easy, every morning. In the summer, I […]
February 2, 2024

A Place Where Heartbreak Feels Good

My boyfriend instilled in me a passion for movies. To heal, that’s where I go. Cam and I hadn’t spoken in over a year when he […]
January 30, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘He’s a Minimalist; I’m a Hoarder’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Honey, I Got You Nothing! For our 12th anniversary, I gave my boyfriend […]
January 26, 2024

The Cost of the American Dream? Our Intimacy.

A physical relationship is nearly impossible for a hard-working Bangladeshi taxi driver and his wife, who longed for each other. Certain mornings can seem exceptionally beautiful […]
January 23, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Looking for a Casual Fling’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. 365 Dips On a Cape Cod beach last January, I braced for my […]
January 19, 2024

My Relationships Have No Clothes

I have no moral objection to infidelity. For me, sex is just sex. He and I had been friends in graduate school in New Orleans for […]
January 16, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Something Told Me to Stay’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Three-Decade Disagreement Vietnam and New York, our worlds were far apart. Camp […]