Love (Emotion)

June 26, 2020

As He Cut My Hair, I Wept

A few weeks ago, I gave myself a crew cut. I didn’t know how long it would be before I could visit a barber and figured […]
June 17, 2020

Modern Love Podcast: Ncuti Gatwa Reads ‘Why Can’t Men Say “I Love You” to Each Other?’

Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: Via Apple Podcasts | Via RadioPublic | Via Stitcher When Ricardo F. Jaramillo was 8, he […]
June 5, 2020

My Quarantine Boyfriend Lost Everything (but Found Me)

I met my quarantine boyfriend in early March, right before everything went down in New York City. Or possibly I met him years earlier when our […]
May 22, 2020

Not Saying My Dog Is Cupid, but …

You can tell a lot about a man by how he treats his dogs. My ex-husband called Tilly, our Labrador retriever mix, “pinhead.” He banished her […]
May 13, 2020

Modern Love Podcast: Alone.

Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: Via Apple Podcasts | Via RadioPublic | Via Stitcher Weeks or months into worldwide stay-at-home orders, […]
May 13, 2020

Alone.

Claire Manship belted songs out the window. Ketaki Chowkhani began barking at a stray puppy. Blake Mitchell performed in drag. As millions of people grapple with […]
May 1, 2020

Making Space in Marriage, Even as the Walls Close In

It was a week before our 25th anniversary, and I wanted out. John and I were sitting in a tent pavilion as women in tiny thongs, […]
April 24, 2020

Live Alone? We Want to Hear From You

ImageCredit…Illustration by Jon Han MODERN LOVE Live Alone? We Want to Hear From You Now that millions of people are isolated at home, Modern Love is […]
April 24, 2020

When It’s Either Your Ex, or Nobody, for Months

My boyfriend broke up with me the week before they found my neighbor. The breakup happened in the evening; I had spent the day grocery shopping […]
April 17, 2020

The End of the Long-Distance Marriage

For the past 13 years, a few days each week, I practiced social distancing by living 200 miles from my husband, Michael — not because I […]