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Tiny Love Stories: ‘Be Grateful We Have Different Last Names’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Can I Ask My Ex to Delete Those Nude Pics?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on how to make a delicate request without provocation, and more.
Our Kinder, Gentler, Nobody-Moves-Out Divorce
When the end of a marriage means living on separate floors of the same house.
The Joys (and Challenges) of Sex After 70
Sex can drop off in our final decades. But for those who keep going, it can be the best of their lives.
Tiny Love Stories: ‘Long After My Ex Had Stopped Caring’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Love Bombing: What It Is and Signs to Look For In a Partner
Grand romantic gestures in the early days of a relationship could be sweet — or a sign you’re dating a narcissist. Here’s how to tell the difference, according to experts.
Watching a Partner Change Is Hard. Accepting It Can Be Harder.
We don’t marry one person as much as we marry one version of a person. But accepting the person a partner may become can be more challenging.
Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Chased Her Shamelessly’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Tiny Love Stories for the New Year: Fresh Starts and New Beginnings
This week, instead of the usual essay, we’re ushering in the new year with eight Tiny Love Stories about fresh starts.
Making These Resolutions Can Improve a Relationship
Relationship experts share four suggestions for enhancing intimacy and romance with your partner in the new year.
It’s a ‘Sex and the City’ World. Can Carrie and Co. Still Live in It?
Two decades ago, “Sex and the City” set the standard for many shows to come. With “And Just Like That …,” the series reintroduces itself to a genre that has evolved beyond it.
‘The Nutcracker’ and the Sex Tape
A holiday story about passion and other adhesives (and an ugly Christmas sweater).
Tiny Love Stories: ‘Nobody Knows I’m a Lesbian’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Elizabeth Holmes Trial Nears Finish as Closing Arguments End
The jury of eight men and four women will meet on Monday morning to consider wire fraud-related charges for claims made to Theranos’s investors and patients.
A Love Language Spoken With Hands
For a deaf man used to broken promises, a video message delivers a fresh start.
Elizabeth Holmes Trial: Closing Arguments Are Set to Begin
Prosecutors said Ms. Holmes, the Theranos founder, deliberately chose to lie instead of letting the start-up fail.
Vicente Fernández Knew His Way Around Your Broken Heart
First breakups. Final goodbyes. For generations, Mr. Fernández, who died on Sunday, provided a soundtrack for moments of anguish and heartache, and a pathway to healing.
Tiny Love Stories: ‘A Child I’ll Never Meet’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
The Welcome Return of the Run-In
Running into acquaintances used to be a routine annoyance. Now, it’s an unholy rush.
Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Felt Desire Overshadow Fear’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Was She Just Another Nicely Packaged Pain Delivery System?
I had been burned too badly to believe in love. And yet, believe I did.
Is Holiday Gift-Giving Really Worth It?
December’s materialism can feel perfunctory.
Prosecutors Push Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos to Take Responsibility
Under cross-examination, the founder of the failed blood testing start-up defended herself but admitted that she had made mistakes.
Tiny Love Stories: ‘Your Husband Will Probably Leave You Now’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Adele and Summer Walker: Our Season of Romantic Discontent
New chart-topping albums from the two singers serve as raw excavations of relationships gone bad.
Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Forced Cinderella to Scrub the Stage Floor’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
We Could All Use a Jodi in Our Lives
Jodi Rodgers, who helps people with autism navigate the world of dating on the Netflix show “Love on the Spectrum,” has some lessons for all of us.
He Cared About Me, So I Broke Up With Him
When you’re used to the roller-coaster emotions of bad relationships, it can be hard to believe in anything else.
Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Only Sort of Hope He’s Happy’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Theirs Is a ‘Traditional Untraditional’ Union
The Tony Award-winning actor Daisy Eagan and her husband Kurt Bloom, who are in an open relationship, share how they designed a marriage that works for them.
Husband of ‘Sweetheart Swindler’ Sentenced to 85 Years for Bilking Older People
Prosecutors said that Desiree Boltos and her husband, Paul Hill, stole more than $3 million from seniors who believed they were in romantic relationships with her.
Interracial Dating: Do You Hide Your True Self While Dating?
When dating interracially, some Black people say that code-switching, a common practice of adapting the way they look, speak or act in different social settings, comes as second nature.
Tiny Love Stories: ‘His Skin Against Mine’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Anxious, Avoidant or Secure: ‘Attached’ Is the Book That’s Shaping How We Understand Love
Over a decade after its publication, one book on dating has people firmly in its grip.
The Curious Tale of Mr. Kale
He was everything I expected and wanted. So why hasn’t he returned to Whole Foods?
How to Get Through a Pandemic Breakup
Even with life slowly creeping back to normal, a split from a partner during such stressful times can feel challenging.
Tiny Love Stories: ‘With You, I Can Be a New Person’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Should I Tell a Facebook Friend I Had an Affair With Her Partner?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on responding to infidelity.
‘Maybe I Do Have a Story to Tell’: Kal Penn on His Memoir
The actor talks about his new book, “You Can’t Be Serious,” in which he introduces readers to his fiancé, Josh, and explains his sabbatical from Hollywood to work for the Obama administration.
Tiny Love Stories: ‘At the Halloween Party, Anxious to Go Home’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Two Wrongs Don’t Make Mr. Right
He wanted to get really serious really fast, which felt good until it didn’t.
Marriage is Declining in America
This is a development with enormous consequences for how we define family and adulthood in general, as well as how we structure taxation and benefits.
It’s Quitting Season
Time to stop being a martyr to grit.
Tiny Love Stories: ‘Who Has Time to Feel All Day?’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
How a Missing Sock Changed My Life
Not the sock itself, but a note attached to the sock. (Actually, the guy who wrote the note.)
The Highs and Lows of Finding Love on the Spectrum
Not surprisingly, the romantic lives of autistic adults are just like those of neurotypical adults: never easy.
The Perfect Dinner for Two
Cooking for someone else can be the purest form of connection.
Tiny Love Stories: ‘An Idyllic Trip to Salvage Our Romance’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
How One Woman Fell In Love Again After 80
For Phyllis Raphael, 86, a chance meeting on the street turned into a get-together. Then came a date. A second and third followed. So did a love affair.