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Tiny Love Stories: ‘That Was My First Inkling’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Can exploring polyamory both break you and make you?
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
He Couldn’t Admit That He Was Hurt
Serving in Vietnam had turned my father into an angry man. So we went back together.
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Hated Myself Because of the Way I Looked’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Tiny Love Stories: ‘We Met at a Gay Bar Called Woody’s’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
An Engagement Ring, but No Fiancé
The origin of the word betrothed is “truth,” but my ring was a lie.
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
I deserved an Oscar for my performances as best supporting wife and mother. After my divorce, I could no longer pretend to be someone I’m not.
By Laura Cathcart Robbins
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.
My doctor asked a routine question that led to a marital crisis.
By Arielle Giusto
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
My daughter and I looked at a book together, posed for a picture, and then she left. Forever.
By Tina Hedin
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
I knew I had to hold onto what I needed — even if that meant using a lawyer to get custody (of a dog).
By Frederick Reimers
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
While I was with our new baby, my husband was with another woman.
By Shelley Akers
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Our long-distance marriage was hard to sustain — and hard to end.
By Patti Niemi
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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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
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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.
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.
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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.
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
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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
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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If that’s how our friends saw us, I couldn’t bear it.
By Courtenay Hameister
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Lessons in letting go and embracing a lighter life.
By Zoe Fowler
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Small gestures can build relationships — and also tear them down.
By Rick Newman
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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