The third Modern Love ever published — a 2004 account of a divorce the writer compared to a space shuttle exploding midflight — was the first to fill our inbox with reader emails.
Thirty years ago, Deborah Copaken thought her boyfriend had stood her up. The real story was more complicated. So she used it as a cautionary tale to help reunite another couple.
Ann Leary’s 2013 essay explored a ‘crisis’ in her marriage to the actor Denis Leary. They just celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary.
To celebrate the column’s 15th anniversary this month, and the new series on Amazon Prime Video, we pulled together some greatest hits.
A platonic connection with her doorman inspired Julie Margaret Hogben’s 2015 essay about navigating the rough seas of dating and motherhood. So how are she, her daughter and Guzim doing now?
In this popular essay from June 2006 — one of the most emailed New York Times articles ever — a wife tries to improve her husband by using exotic-animal training techniques.
As an infant, my child was left on a bridge with a note pinned to her sweater. I thought finding it would provide us both with answers.
A long line of absentee fathers taught me a lesson in love that was hard to undo. It also gave me a powerful tribe of matriarchs.
As a queer woman, I fought for the right to be married. Now I’m fighting for the space to be human.
It took my mother’s short-term amnesia to make me realize what long-term love is all about.