Love
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‘The Two of Us Against the World’
Because marriage is an ever-evolving experience, we constantly shift, change and, in some cases, start over. In It’s No Secret,…
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8 Wedding Gifts That Do Some Good, Too
Even if they’ve requested no gifts, showing up to a wedding without something for the couple can feel awkward. Newlyweds…
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Love Letter: A Cute Neighbor and a Coincidence
If you meet a cute new neighbor and feel something long-dormant “crackle” inside of you, you might want to pay…
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A ‘Summer House’ Wedding Five Seasons in the Making
Season 1 filming began in June 2016. Despite Mr. Cooke’s effort to be single, Ms. Batula’s plans overlapped his at…
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A Match Made in Group Meditation
In September 2018, participants in a Yom Kippur meditation began to arrive in front of the Turtle Pond in Central…
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Chasing Their Fears and Finding Each Other
For their first date five years ago, Ben Lee took Kerrie Knox for a ride in his 1947 Beechcraft B35…
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‘Electricity’ That Led to Love
Chris Baker was with a group of friends at a nightclub in Hollywood, Calif., over the Thanksgiving weekend of 2013,…
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The Summer Romance That Never Ended
A postgraduate summer fling with Jurema Gobena, in New Haven, Conn., in 2016, just wasn’t enough for Enyi Okebugwu. “The…
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Foiling a Science Experiment for Love
Drs. Kate Carlisle Stoeckle and Jeffrey Russell Arace broke the rules when they first met. Their meeting took place in…
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Syncing Up ‘Beat for Beat’
Meghan Louttit and Joseph Iervolino met six years ago through the dating app OkCupid, where he now works as a…
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Finding a Keeper in the Course of ‘50 Throwaway Dates’
Eva Maria Theresa Janerus, recently divorced, sought the help of a matchmaker in June 2019 to prepare her for the…
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The Highs and Lows of Finding Love on the Spectrum
Long before he was diagnosed with A.S.D. at 35, Steve Asbell of Orange Park, Fla., had one of his worst…
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Love Letter: Finding Comfort in Silence
Alice Hoffman, the writer of this week’s Modern Love essay, always found comfort in the long walks and lengthy conversations…
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In Love and Recovery
Lauren Sabbath wasn’t sure how much of her past she should divulge on her first date with David Clayton Jr.,…
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A Cancer Doctor and YA Novelist Find the Right Words for Each Other
As two people widely recognized for their prose, Bianca Turetsky and Peter Bach perhaps unsurprisingly each found themselves drawn to…
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A (Not So) Surprise Proposal
In a fancy cocktail bar, Patent Pending, in Manhattan, Onadek Winan, 27, and Kyle Johnson, 29, met for the first…
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Sticking Together in Sickness and in Health
While exchanging vows on Sept. 11, Molly Kathleen Atwater and Thomas Matthew Pulisic purposely skipped the words “for better or…
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What We Saw at the New York Bridal Fashion Week
With more weddings now taking place since the start of the pandemic, designers were especially excited to debut their latest…
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Parallel Lives Converge, With Help From an App
Daniil Kalyuzhny and Nina Naydenova disagree about the nature of their first meeting. In 2016, Mr. Kalyuzhny, then an M.B.A.…
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A Promise to ‘Always Say Yes to the Animals’
Sidney A. Beard and Jill Brown have six cats, three hens, two dogs, two rabbits and a Belgian draft horse,…
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