Hits: 21 Who would have guessed that the former New York media obsession Julia Allison and the law scholar Noah Feldman would make a great couple? One afternoon in May 2020, Julia Allison sat in a hot spring near Joshua …
Al terminar la universidad, aposté todo por mi novio
Hits: 11 Cuando mis amigos iban en pos de empleos interesantes y la facultad de derecho, yo me fui a México detrás de un chico. Diez meses después de salir de la universidad, estaba sentada en una pequeña cabaña de …
Pinned Under the Bodies of Men
Hits: 15 I thought being sexually bold was a game I was allowed to play. I had no idea of the punishment that awaited me — or the surprising healing to come. I have been pinned under the body of …
Finding Her ‘Barack Obama’ With the Help of a Friend
Hits: 17 Olivia Castor and Austin McNair met at Harvard through Ms. Castor’s roommate, who had a knack for matchmaking. One day in April 2017, during the spring semester of her senior year at Harvard, Olivia Melissa Castor received a …
Love Letter: ‘Don’t cry. You’re an American.’
Hits: 16 Before her mother was deported, a writer needed to share who she really was. “I came out to my mother the day she got deported,” Christy DeGallerie writes in this week’s moving Modern Love essay about sexuality, immigration …
Can This Deck of Cards Make Your Partner Do More Chores?
Hits: 20 The Fair Play system, a word-of-mouth hit, seeks to bring so-called invisible labor out into the open. Ask Eve Rodsky why resentment is seeping into your relationship, and she might ask you: “How did the mustard get into …
Is Having Too Many Followers a Turnoff?
Hits: 20 Some women with jobs that require a high degree of visibility online say they have faced romantic rejection over the high number of their social media followers. A few years ago, Sara Zeljkovic, a 25-year-old living in Toronto, …
Tiny Love Stories: ‘Take a Bath With Me’
Hits: 16 Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Face Like Her Mother’s In the supermarket yesterday, a young woman with three babies stopped stock still in front of me. “You look just …
Florence Berger, Who Helped People Find Enduring Love, Dies at 83
Hits: 17 A tenured professor at Cornell with a feel for human chemistry, she found a second calling as a successful matchmaker. Almost all of her pairings lasted. Florence Berger, a Cornell University professor who found a second calling as …
Love Letter: Honoring O’Shae Sibley at the Stonewall Inn
Hits: 16 “He was just a beautiful spirit, a wonderful person, just exercising his freedom to be alive.” On Thursday evening, 80 mourners gathered at the Stonewall Inn, a New York City bar known for its pivotal role in the …