An actor discusses how family roles can limit our ability to love fully.
Category: Love (Emotion)
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My Struggle to Stop Loving Him
On a post-divorce bicycle ride through Paris with her ex-husband, a woman weighs the costs of divorce.
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘My Mother Lied to a Grieving Lady’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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‘Modern Love’ Podcast: Why Gossiping Could Help Your Love Life
Kelsey McKinney, author of the new book “You Didn’t Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip,” talks about the joys and problems gossiping has brought to her relationships.
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Looking at a Stranger and Seeing Myself
A DNA match revealed my birth mother. Our story began with sacrifice and ended with a rapturous hello.
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘Two Boyfriends at One Time’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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‘Modern Love’ Podcast: How to Fall (and Stay) in Love
And an update to the famous Modern Love story “To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This.”
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The Kind of Pain I Wanted
To get out of my head and be more in the moment, I turned to bondage.
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘Because of You I Have a Husband’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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‘Modern Love’ Podcast: Neko Case: ‘If I Didn’t Yell the Truth, What Good Was I?’
The singer-songwriter speaks out about her troubled family history and reads a Modern Love essay about an estranged mother and daughter.
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A Marriage Starts to Unravel on the Honeymoon
The perils (and surprising benefits!) of getting hitched while still seeing other people.
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘You Have to Let Your Gut Lead’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.