When Love Means Being Selfish
I knew I had to hold onto what I needed — even if that meant using a lawyer to get custody (of a dog).
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I knew I had to hold onto what I needed — even if that meant using a lawyer to get custody (of a dog).
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
The Gen Z ‘it girl’ singer on the painful push and pull of young love.
By Anna Martin, Julia Botero, Christina Djossa, Reva Goldberg, Emily Lang, Davis Land, Jen Poyant, Daniel Ramirez, Dan Powell and
Tiny Love Stories: ‘The One-Liners Kept Coming’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Why John Magaro of ‘Past Lives’ Could Never Love a Picky Eater
For the actor, compatibility comes down to food. You need to be able to share.
By Anna Martin, Julia Botero, Christina Djossa, Reva Goldberg, Emily Lang, Davis Land, Jen Poyant, Daniel Ramirez, Dan Powell, Marion Lozano, Diane Wong, Rowan Niemisto and
Tiny Love Stories: ‘Are You Your Father’s Daughter?’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
The 16 Messages That Led to Love
Readers of the Modern Love column share the banter, emojis and wit that made them fall for each other.
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Among the staged photos and silly prompts of online dating, I get one sentence where I get to be my true self.
By Sara Thomas
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
When an Italian stranger approached me, I listened to my intuition, and it changed my life forever.
By Lavinia Spalding
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
When technology offered me the chance to celebrate my dead husband’s 27th birthday, I took it.
By Madeline de Figueiredo
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
The grief of miscarriage is largely invisible. And with each loss, the longing multiplies.
By Lori Vogt Rosone
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Perhaps what’s making me sick is not the lack of love I have received but the love I have ceased to give.
By Victor Lodato
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Learning to love two women at once — one living with Alzheimer’s — is a challenge and a blessing.
By Townsend Davis
How did your relationship go from “hey” to heartfelt? We want to see the messages that started it all — and hear about what happened next.
By The New York Times
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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Our 19-year age gap feels treacherous and gossip inducing — and is also the best thing that’s ever happened to me.
By Cat Powell-Hoffmann
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Divorce left me with a surprising realization about who was the love of my life.
By Elizabeth Stein
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
My boyfriend instilled in me a passion for movies. To heal, that’s where I go.
By Sophia Ortega
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
A physical relationship is nearly impossible for a hard-working Bangladeshi taxi driver and his wife, who longed for each other.
By Abdullah Zahid
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
I have no moral objection to infidelity. For me, sex is just sex.
By Kate Bailey
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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Korea was my parents’ country. They wouldn’t need me there as they did in Canada … right?
By Susan Yoon
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
After losing my husband, I just wanted to feel alive. Then I wanted more.
By Dacia Fusaro
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
When I abandoned “grayspeak” — talking to elders as if they are toddlers — my conversations with my grandmother finally began.
By Richard Morgan
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Readers share how money affected their relationships
By The New York Times
My father’s decision to cut me out of his will shocked me. Could the damage ever be repaired?
By MB Caschetta
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I didn’t see the point of investing in candlelit dinners or surprise gifts. Then I met Nicki, who taught me that romance is not an extravagance.
By David Yoon
What would you do if you won the lottery? How do we stop having this same fight about money? And much more.
By Anna Sale
The common denominator between the two relationships had not been gender or sexual orientation. It had been me.
By Melissa Febos
My disability means I’ll need long-term care. If I pay for more now, will my boyfriend care for me later?
By Chloé Cooper Jones
Divorce was a shock that led me to a new vow: financial independence.
By Maggie Smith
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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