Modern Love (Times Column)

November 17, 2020

Tiny Love Stories: ‘It Soothes Me to Know Someone So Gentle’

Magic in Manila At 5, I believed that my father could perform magic. In Manila’s moist heat, he drove in stop-and-go traffic with five screaming children […]
November 10, 2020

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Had a Lot of Feelings and Nowhere to Put Them’

Just Me and My Sea Monkeys I was in love and in lockdown in a small flat in Leith, Scotland. I had a lot of feelings […]
October 27, 2020

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Do I Always Tilt My Head Like That?’

Embracing a New Life and Love When I lifted the baby girl to my chest, it was love, overwhelming and instant. Then came the Spider-Man light-up […]
October 20, 2020

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Our Refuge From Reality’

With a Touch of Love My father, Seung-ho, has always had an eye for little details. About two months into sheltering-in-place, I asked him to grab […]
October 2, 2020

Love Letter: Is It Time to Break Up?

As that old song goes, “breaking up is hard to do,” especially during a global pandemic. While ending things with a partner might be tougher right […]
September 22, 2020

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Didn’t Want to Like Him’

‘Don’t Ever Lose This Rock’ Six years ago, on a humid evening at an open-air bar in Vietnam, a tipsy acquaintance gave me a rock. She […]
September 1, 2020

How to Submit a Modern Love Essay

ImageCredit…Brian Rea Although Modern Love has evolved into a podcast, a book, a TV show and Tiny Love Stories in its 16 years, the column’s central […]
May 29, 2020

Love Letter: Should You Text Your Ex?

Quarantine life has left us yearning for human connection, so it’s no surprise that exes have turned to texts as a means of reconnecting. Some in […]
March 13, 2020

Love Letter: Life After ‘Love Is Blind’

[Sign up here to receive Love Letter, a weekly newsletter about relationship highs, lows and woes, in your inbox every Friday.] Netflix’s reality romance show “Love […]
March 6, 2020

Love Letter: Learning the Meaning of Love

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