Love (Emotion)

January 9, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Remember How Obnoxious I Was?’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Calling It What It Is I’d been a disobedient teenager, eager to rebel […]
January 5, 2024

My Bad-Times-Only Boyfriend

Why is my long-ago fling suddenly acting as if he’s my husband? I untangled my IV from the machine and hobbled backward into my crunchy hospital […]
January 2, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘It All Began So Innocently’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Falling Upward It all began so innocently: snow falling at dusk, a crackling […]
December 29, 2023

The Secret Sorrow of Hotel Rooms

After losing my husband, I just wanted to feel alive. Then I wanted more. My exact words to him on our first date were: “I’m not […]
December 26, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘My First Post-Divorce Christmas’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. He’ll Be Home for Christmas! “I’ll drive; it’s 20 hours and I’ll be […]
December 22, 2023

At 93, Teaching Me About Possibility

When I abandoned “grayspeak” — talking to elders like they are toddlers — my conversations with my grandmother finally began. Awake from a nap in her […]
December 19, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I’m Shrinking, but I Don’t Tell Him’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Savoring the Pain I can’t help but think of my first love’s coffee […]
December 12, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Not the Romance I’d Imagined’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Our Shared Sense of Wonder Flannel, fireplace, falling snow and frosty windows. The […]
December 11, 2023

The Devastation of Disinheritance

This essay is part of a Modern Love project on the intersection of money and relationships. In 2017, eight years after I discovered that my father […]
December 11, 2023

David Yoon on How He Learned to Spend Money on Love

This essay is part of a Modern Love project on the intersection of money and relationships. I didn’t grow up in a romantic household. My parents […]