Entering marriage as your mother leaves it can create an emotional disconnect.
Tag Archives: Love (Emotion)
Tiny Love Stories: ‘Be Grateful We Have Different Last Names’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Our Kinder, Gentler, Nobody-Moves-Out Divorce
When the end of a marriage means living on separate floors of the same house.
Tiny Love Stories: ‘Long After My Ex Had Stopped Caring’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
The Benefits of Bickering in Marriage
A relationship is a shared story, even if it’s hard to agree on the details.
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.
What to Do With Your Bad Holiday Gifts
These objects haunt us; there’s no returning them, not really.
‘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.
A Love Language Spoken With Hands
For a deaf man used to broken promises, a video message delivers a fresh start.
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.
My Not-So-Secret Admirer
Sometimes you just need a dose of love and validation to get you through the day. And who better to give it to you than yourself?
‘I Would Give Anything to Hold Their Hands Again’
A husband and wife find a way to talk to their young sons about an unspeakable event.
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.
Tiny Love Stories: ‘Your Husband Will Probably Leave You Now’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Swimming Upstream in Heels and Skinny Pants
If I were a salmon, I would die for my child. As a human being, I wish I could have.
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.
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.
The Manny Diaries
Chapter one: This job is hard. Chapter two: Leaving it is harder.
Tiny Love Stories: ‘His Skin Against Mine’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
The Curious Tale of Mr. Kale
He was everything I expected and wanted. So why hasn’t he returned to Whole Foods?
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.
A Stranger Looked Like My Twin. That Was Just the Beginning.
How a family secret was unraveled by 23andMe.
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.
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.)
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.
The One Thing We Couldn’t Talk About
When the bad news finally arrived, neither one of us — dear friends for 60 years — knew what to say.
Tiny Love Stories: ‘We Couldn’t Stop Ourselves’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
We Wanted to Split Up. OkCupid Had Other Ideas.
Did we really want to throw away 98 percent compatibility?
Driving the Stake Through Emotional Vampires
How a visit to a love shaman helped put an end to draining relationships.
Tiny Love Stories: ‘Conversation Is Great Foreplay’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Remote Work Gave Us a Life Together. Now What?
When a return to the office threatens a relationship.
How to Spot a Love Addict
Experts question whether we can describe a toxic relationship the way we talk about gambling or alcohol. But some have found that framework to be a helpful step in the road to freedom.
Tiny Love Stories: ‘My Body Told a Different Story’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Hearing His Voice Changed Everything
I never knew my father. Did he know me?
Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Most Beautiful Man I Had Ever Seen’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
An Anxious Person Tries to Be Chill
Spoiler: It doesn’t work (until she stops trying).
From a Sale, Lace Undergarments, Never Worn
My mother told me if I didn’t marry by 25, I would end up “on the shelf.” Still single at 36, I’m learning to appreciate the view.
Why My Daughter Got (Temporarily) Married at 13
Having been shamed about my sexuality when I was young, I was determined, as a mother, to celebrate my child’s romantic wishes.
Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Laughed Out Loud to Nobody in Particular’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
The Best of Tiny Love Stories
These true stories, each no more than 100 words, pack a punch. We gathered 10 of the most powerful to give you a boost.
It’s Time to Talk About ‘Hard Things’
Welcome to the world of Anna Sale — the host of “Death, Sex & Money” — where the topics that are the most painful to talk about are also the ripest for discussion.