Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. In the winter of my 40th year, I received a cancer diagnosis that required major surgery. I packed my ...

Hoping for New Blooms. This can’t possibly work. Hemza is half my age and lives 3,800 miles away. But after he visited me in November, he updated his online status to say, “I fell in love with ...

I’m falling in love all over again. I send my mother texts and flowers and invitations for trips just for us. But the words I find to speak aren’t ever equal to what I feel, ...

I love my children deeply. And in all the ways that matter, from nightmare-soothing to lunch-making, I am a mom to them. Yet, I have zero legal ability to protect them or advocate for their interests.

After this life, I’ll never again have these times to use my suffering to love God, so I want to make the best of them now. It’s like looking back after a race and thinking, “If only I had ...

I Love My Child—I Hate His Autism. Published Apr 10, 2024 at 7:33 AM EDT Updated Apr 11, 2024 at 5:58 AM EDT. By . Beth Ruggiero Bell has been teaching high school English literature and ...

As I sat in awe listening to my grandma's love story back in 2011, I felt goosebumps. I didn't know whether to cry or smile. We sat in brief silence, and I could tell there was more to the story.

B ack in 2016, on one of the bleached-out days that fuse winter with early spring, my husband Stewart and I sat on an oversized couch in front of Evelyn, our couple’s therapist. Therapy had been ...