For a special Modern Love project, we’re looking for your most unforgettable lines from a breakup, either delivered or received — kind, bizarre, profound, haunting or funny.
Category: Dating and Relationships
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What It Means to Set a Boundary
It might sound counterintuitive, but your relationships can benefit from rules and limitations.
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘If I Had a Time Machine’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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Pop Culture Enters Its Virgin Era (Again)
Has a conservative cultural moment primed viewers to embrace a dating show about adult virgins? Perhaps. But the obsession with virginity has always been there.
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Listen to Elizabeth Gilbert on the Modern Love Podcast
The “Eat, Pray, Love” author on healing from the sex and love addiction that almost destroyed her life.
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8 Phrases to Help Your Relationship Thrive
We asked couples therapists to share the magic words that can strengthen bonds, even in the middle of a disagreement.
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Natalie Massenet and Erik Torstensson’s Messy Split, in Dueling Lawsuits
In the messy, public split of the Net-a-Porter founder Natalie Massenet and Erik Torstensson, no accusations seem off limits.
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘UR CUTE, TEXT ME’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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‘Sister Wives’ Star Christine Brown Woolley Talks Polygamy, and Why She Left
Christine Woolley on what she loved about polygamy and why, ultimately, she left.
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How Has Being Perpetually Single Affected Your Life?
We want to hear from women over the age of 30 who feel as if they have not yet had a meaningful relationship for a New York Times Magazine feature.
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My Boyfriend’s Most Romantic Act
After my longtime partner and I split up, I got a big, comforting dog. But in a moment of deep sadness, I needed a human being.
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‘The Paper’ Is Hollywood’s Latest Take on Journalism
Sometimes, journalists are heroes onscreen. Other times, they can’t help but fall in love.