Love (Emotion)

April 6, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Relieved About a Friend’s Failure’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words Looking for Someone, Maybe You My boss at the Design Industries Foundation Fighting […]
April 2, 2021

My Choice Isn’t Marriage or Loneliness

I thought I had a classic fear of commitment, but it’s more complicated than that. I broke up with my boyfriend of five years during quarantine, […]
March 30, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Didn’t Want Her to Stay Long’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Our Seder, a Year Later “Why is this night different from all the […]
March 26, 2021

Modern Love: Expecting Long Distance Relationships to End

I kept telling myself not to believe in him. And yet, believe I did. It started with a Facebook message from a boy I had known […]
March 23, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Mommy, Why Don’t You Have a Boyfriend?’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. My Mother, My Friend My first semester of college, I only called my […]
March 19, 2021

The Dress Promised Me Something the Doctors Couldn’t

My obsessive online shopping wasn’t really about the clothes. The dress was black with shiny buttons at the wrists and an oversized bow in the back. […]
March 16, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Mami Sent Me to Check You Out’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. I Guess I Passed Her Test As a dutiful girlfriend, I accompanied Arturo […]
March 12, 2021

Why I Took a Vow of Celibacy

Advertisement Continue reading the main story Supported by Continue reading the main story Modern Love Why I Took a Vow of Celibacy In my life, sex […]
March 9, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Had to Take Your Picture’

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March 5, 2021

Modern Love: My Parents' Divorce and That Two-House, Duffel-Bag Life

Advertisement Continue reading the main story Supported by Continue reading the main story Modern Love My Two-House, Duffel-Bag Life When my parents divorced, I lost the […]