Single Persons

April 27, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Why Can’t You Find Someone?’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Tito’s Trust Tito asked me to marry him, but not for the happily […]
January 29, 2021

Two Dating Apps and 98 First Dates. Something Was Different About the 99th.

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January 10, 2021

Hooking Up in the Covid Era

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December 4, 2020

Modern Love: The Pandemic Arrived. His Text Back Did Not.

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November 11, 2020

Enjoy the Holidays Alone

Thanksgiving and the holidays that follow are going to look different for everyone this year, but for those who live alone, these changes might hit particularly […]
October 29, 2020

You’re Not Voting? Swipe Left

Rebecca Cibbarelli, 23, was texting with a man on Hinge while Senator Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence debated on her TV screen in early […]
October 23, 2020

I Was Done Dating. Then I Joined a Hookup App.

Last summer, as I neared 25 years in Vancouver, I concluded that I had exhausted the local dating pool. I had overfished Plenty of Fish and […]
October 2, 2020

Love and the Lockdown

In late February, Jordan Tyler saw a TV commercial for the dating app Match, and while “not big on an online thing,” decided, nonetheless to give […]
July 17, 2020

Trying to Feel Love-Worthy (While Working for a Dating App)

As fascinating as it may sound, working in customer service for a dating app tends to be repetitive and mundane. During each eight-hour shift, I often […]
December 29, 2017

Modern Love: Love Calls, and So Does the Priesthood

Advertisement I met the priest, or rather the man hoping to become one, in a stationery shop in SoHo where I worked. After a few flirtatious […]