Index: Modern Love

See also: chronological view (much prettier).

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A Lost Child, but Not Mine
My Clock Was Already Ticking
A Painful Reminder of My Ex
I Need to Woman Up and Do This on My Own
I Need to Woman Up and Do This on My Own

Adoptions

Why Did She Leave Me There?
‘Monogamous Birds of N.Y.C.’
Going Back to China in Search of My Daughter’s Secret Past
‘How Come You Rarely Told Me You Loved Me?’
Don’t Put All Your (Frozen) Eggs in One Basket
An Open Adoption Now Crosses Many Time Zones
Four Castaways Make a Family
A Husband Lost, a Daughter Found
Three Mothers, One Bond
Untying a Birth Mother’s Hands
What Might Have Been
Open Adoption: Not So Simple Math
To Nurture Again, With Courage
Dear Birth Mother, Please Hit ‘Reply’
My Clock Was Already Ticking
When One of Me Suddenly Became Three
My First Lesson in Motherhood
An Adopted Child Is a Riddle. Now I Have a Clue.
Who Is This Child? And What Will He Be Next?
Online Images Open a Heart, Then a Home
Online Images Open a Heart, Then a Home
A Surrogate Dries Her Tears
A Surrogate Dries Her Tears
DJ's Homeless Mommy
DJ’s Homeless Mommy
I Gave Him Up at 16. Could We Try Again?

Adultery

‘She Is Not a Mistake’
‘It Wasn’t the Sex That Hurt, but the Lying’
‘Tell Your Husband to Leave Me Alone’
What Sleeping With Married Men Taught Me About Infidelity
In the Waiting Room of Estranged Spouses
In the Waiting Room of Estranged Spouses
After the Affair
You May Call It Cheating, but We Don’t
Newly Wed and Quickly Unraveling
In the Clicks of a Mouse, a Betrayal
A Roomful of Yearning and Regret
A Wallet-Size Photo, a Father’s Double Life
An Open and Shut Marriage

Advertising

Honey, I Swept the Floor!
Out From Under the Influence
Out From Under the Influence

Advertising And Marketing

Honey, I Swept the Floor!

Age (Chronological)

We Lived in the Present, Then the Future Arrived

Age, Chronological

Lockdown Was Our Breaking Point
Please, Lord, Let Him Be 27
She Slipped Past My Age Filter
At What Age Is Love Enthralling? 82
Gifts for the Broken-Hearted
The Accidental Older Woman
Maturity Was Just Too Messy for Me
In the Grip of Nature’s Own Form of Birth Control
Paradise Lost (Domestic Division)
Paradise Lost (Domestic Division)
Sleeping With the Guitar Player

Airlines And Airplanes

Is There a Doctor in the Marriage?
The Magi at 40,000 Feet
How I Earned My Wings Back
Live Without Me. I’ll Understand.
Live Without Me. I’ll Understand.
Nursing My Daughter, and Some Grievances
Nursing My Daughter, and Some Grievances

Alcohol Abuse

Kim Dickens Reads ‘A Measure of Desire’
Flying Close to Temptation
No One to Rescue Me From My Drinking
A Glass All Empty
We Ate and Drank While the Warning Lights Flashed
Out From Under the Influence
Out From Under the Influence

Alimony

How I Fell for an ‘I’m the Man’ Man

Alzheimer's Disease

The Day His Journal Went Blank
Will They See Me as a Son, a Daughter or a Stranger?
‘She Is Not a Mistake’
A Boyfriend Too Good to Be True
Promises That Can Bend Without Breaking
Holding Fast, Letting Go
A Memory Magically Interrupted
Father and Daughter: One Final Connection
Father and Daughter: One Final Connection
When Mr. Reliable Becomes Mr. Needy

Amazon River

A Crash Course in Honeymoon Survival

Ambulances

‘I Almost Left Him Three Times’

American Automobile Assn

I Would Have Driven Her Anywhere

American Red Cross

Grappling With the Language of Love

American Society For Reproductive Medicine

Don’t Put All Your (Frozen) Eggs in One Basket

Amnesia

Where I Find Romance in Marriage

Amputation

We Needed More Significant Others

Animals

Spending My Tenderness on Animals
After Losing My Sight, Struggling to Be Seen
‘In the Summer, We Sleep Naked’
What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage
What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage
What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage
What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage
A Bad Case of Puppy Love

Anorexia Nervosa

I Wanted to Love Her, Not Save Her
Chubby, Skinny, Accepting

Antarctic Regions

My Five-Week-Long First Date

Apatow, Judd

Judd Apatow Reads ‘At the Hospital, an Interlude of Clarity’

Apparel

‘The Twin Bed We Were Forced to Share’
He’s Never Going to Put Away That Shirt
My Husband Wore Really Tight Shorts to the Eclipse Party
All Twisted Up by Gender Bending
In the Dressing Room, Relationships Laid Bare

Arabic Language

Grappling With the Language of Love

Arizona

I Would Have Driven Her Anywhere

Artificial Insemination

‘The Chart Said “Break up,” So We Did’
First I Met My Children, Then My Girlfriend. They’re Related.
A Choice Not as Easy as It Looked
Perfect, With Childbearing Hips
Mom/Not Mom/Aunt

Automobiles

I Would Have Driven Her Anywhere
Jason Alexander Reads ‘The Hunter-Gatherer, Parking Division’
On a Serpentine Road, With the Top Down
Another Voice Had Come Between Us
In a Charmed Life, a Road Less Traveled
‘You Need to Take My Son to Jail’
The Hunter-Gatherer, Parking Division
Riding Shotgun and Living Life
Riding Shotgun and Living Life

Abstinence (Sexual)

On Tinder, Off Sex
On Tinder, Off Sex
After a First Time, Many Second Thoughts
A Pact to Make the Heart Grow Fonder?

Accidents And Safety

When Sturdy Love Is What You Need
Please Take My Son’s Wallet
The Accident No One Talked About
Another Voice Had Come Between Us
Looking for Signs That It’s Meant to Be
In a Charmed Life, a Road Less Traveled
Live Without Me. I’ll Understand.
Live Without Me. I’ll Understand.

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

On the Precipice, Wings Spread
My Secret Left Me Unable to Help
The Man I Wish Was Your Father
Fatherly Memories Scattered to the Wind

Actors And Actresses

The Tallest Man I Ever Loved
How Hollywood Ruined Me for Romance
What Clown Wrote This Script?

Afghanistan War (2001 )

Changing Two Lives, Then the World
A Surrender to War, After an Uneasy Peace
A Brief Visit From My Soldier Son

Agriculture And Farming

Spending My Tenderness on Animals

Airbnb

Neighbor Bro Smashes My Romantic Fantasy

Alfa Romeo Automobiles

On a Serpentine Road, With the Top Down

Americans Abroad

Breaking Free From the Nesting Doll
A Child of Two Worlds
Would Hemingway Cry?

Anaphylactic Shock

It’s Us Against a Particle of Dust

Antiques

How I Came to Live in a Chair Emporium

Anxiety And Stress

It’s Us Against a Particle of Dust
At the Hospital, an Interlude of Clarity
Out of the Darkness

Aron, Arthur (1945 )

Try the 36 Questions on the Way to Love
To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This
The 36 Questions That Lead to Love
The 36 Questions That Lead to Love

Art

A Glance (and a Rooster) That Changed Everything
‘Cute Smile, Funny Caption, Why Not?’
‘We Found Our Groove in Splitting Up’
‘I Worried About Telling Him My Age’
‘The Chart Said “Break up,” So We Did’
New Hope, New Pain, Same Old Divorce
The House Where My Husband Doesn’t Exist
Preparing My Family for Life Without Me
Destined to Marry the Cute Bartender
First I Met My Children, Then My Girlfriend. They’re Related.
For a 30-Year-Old Virgin, It’s Now or Never
Mom: ‘Is He Jewish?’ Me: ‘No.’ Mom: ‘Is He Smart?’
A Boyfriend Too Good to Be True
Try the 36 Questions on the Way to Love
To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This
The 36 Questions That Lead to Love
The 36 Questions That Lead to Love
It Was in Giving That They Received
A Choice Not as Easy as It Looked
Losing a ‘Boyfriend,’ the Best Way Possible
Labels of Married Life, in a New Light
Three Mothers, One Bond
A Father, a Son and a Fighting Chance
Ring-Finger Follies
Perfect, With Childbearing Hips
Mom/Not Mom/Aunt
Death Bear Will See You Now
Once Political, Now Just Practical
A Prince Charming for the Prom (Not Ever After, Though)
Witness to a Wedding That Wasn't
Witness to a Wedding That Wasn't
Sometimes a Model Girlfriend Shouldn't

Asheville (Nc)

I Would Have Driven Her Anywhere

Asian Americans

When a Dating Dare Leads to Months of Soul Searching

Asperger's Syndrome

Somewhere Inside, a Path to Empathy
Somewhere Inside, a Path to Empathy
Somewhere Inside, a Path to Empathy

Assaults

DJ's Homeless Mommy

Astrology

Need to Find Me? Ask My Ham Man
The Heart Said Yes; the Horoscope Said No

Austin (Tex)

I Would Have Driven Her Anywhere

Australia

Australia Edition

Autism

‘Lenny Was Supposed to Fall for the Other Iris’
A Glimpse Into My Son’s Magnificent Mind
Devoted but Dateless
Good Practice for a Tough Fatherhood
‘You Need to Take My Son to Jail’
Adolescence, Without a Roadmap

Autoimmune Diseases

In Matters of the Heart, We’re in This Together

Automobile Safety Features And Defects

Live Without Me. I’ll Understand.

Ayotte, Lori

A Culture Gap the Size of an Ocean, Bridged by Facebook

Babies

I Met My Husband on the Maternity Ward
Superheroes, Just for Each Other
A Dream, or a Premonition, Leads to a New Beginning
It Was in Giving That They Received
We Didn’t Have a Plan, but the Baby Did
Three Mothers, One Bond
A Role I Was Born to Play
A Lost Child, but Not Mine
The People on the Bus Say ‘Shame on You’
An Adopted Child Is a Riddle. Now I Have a Clue.
My Triplets Were Inseparable, Whatever the Risks
In the Grip of Nature’s Own Form of Birth Control
In the Grip of Nature’s Own Form of Birth Control
Fatherhood, I Now Learn, Is a Young Man’s Game
Fatherhood, I Now Learn, Is a Young Man’s Game
I Need to Woman Up and Do This on My Own
I Need to Woman Up and Do This on My Own
Figure It Out? Figure It Out? O.K., You Figure It Out!
Figure It Out? Figure It Out? O.K., You Figure It Out!
You're Not Sick, You're Just In Love
You're Not Sick, You're Just in Love
A Passion for the Movies? Yes, Yes Yes!
A Passion for the Movies? Yes, Yes ... Yes!
Paradise Lost (Domestic Division)
Paradise Lost (Domestic Division)
A Surrogate Dries Her Tears
A Surrogate Dries Her Tears
Mother Must Muzzle the Nuzzle
Mother Must Muzzle the Nuzzle
DJ's Homeless Mommy
The New Nanny Diaries Are Online
The New Nanny Diaries Are Online
Who's That Lady in the Bedroom, Daddy?
Losing Custody of My Hope
Looking for Love at the Sperm Bank
Truly, Madly, Guiltily
Truly, Madly, Guiltily
His Genes Hold Gifts. Mine Carry Risk.
MODERN LOVE

Bangladesh

Now for a Quick Lesson in International Relations
Now for a Quick Lesson in International Relations

Blogs And Blogging (Internet)

Downloadable. Unsustainable, Too.
An Ex Blogs. Is it O.K. to Watch?
My Very Own Cyberstalker
Traveling the Too-Much-Information Highway
Traveling the Too-Much-Information Highway

Books And Literature

How Bibliophiles Flirt
Destined to Marry the Cute Bartender
How ‘Lolita’ Freed Me From My Own Humbert
How to Stop Breaking Up
‘You Need to Take My Son to Jail’
Race Wasn’t an Issue to Him, Which Was an Issue to Me
My Husband Survived; the Man I Married Didn’t
Paradise Lost (Domestic Division)
Paradise Lost (Domestic Division)
The New Nanny Diaries Are Online
The New Nanny Diaries Are Online
Bucking Wedding Conventions ... Except for One
Truly, Madly, Guiltily

Breast

The Kindness, and Xanax, of Strangers
Rescued by an Israeli Soldier
A Body Scarred, a Marriage Healed

Brooklyn (Nyc)

Boy, What a Fabulous Baker
That’s My Pride Beneath the Love Train
A Go-Between Gets Going
A Go-Between Gets Going

Babies And Infants

I Met My Husband on the Maternity Ward
A Dream, or a Premonition, Leads to a New Beginning
It Was in Giving That They Received
Three Mothers, One Bond
A Role I Was Born to Play
A Lost Child, but Not Mine

Bakeries And Baked Products

Abbi Jacobson Reads ‘Boy, What a Fabulous Baker’

Baldwin, James

I Broke Up With Her Because She’s White
Race Wasn’t an Issue to Him, Which Was an Issue to Me

Baldwin, James (1924 87)

I Broke Up With Her Because She’s White

Banana Republic

Seeing the World Through My Wife’s Eyes

Bangkok (Thailand)

A World Away, a Wish Answered

Banks And Banking

How Could I Tell Him What I Knew? How Could I Not?

Barbers And Barbering

As He Cut My Hair, I Wept

Bars

‘My Mother Has Been a Nanny for Six Families’
‘His Friends Begged Me to Slap Him.’
Flying Close to Temptation
R We D8ting?

Bars And Nightclubs

‘My Mother Has Been a Nanny for Six Families’
‘His Friends Begged Me to Slap Him.’
Flying Close to Temptation

Bartenders

Destined to Marry the Cute Bartender

Baumgardner, Jennifer

Just the Two of Us, When One Toddles

Bazelon, Lara

From Divorce, a Fractured Beauty

Beach, David

Just Don’t Call Me Mom

Beatles, The

Now I Need a Place to Hide Away

Beauty (Concept)

At What Age Is Love Enthralling? 82

Bedbugs

Alone When the Bedbugs Bite

Bhutan

A Forgotten Prayer, Answered

Bicycles And Bicycling

The Bike That Saved My Life
Losing My Way Has Been a Way of Life for Me
Losing My Way Has Been a Way of Life for Me

Big Sur (Calif)

G.P.S. for My Lost Identity

Bipolar Disorder

Making a Hard Choice for a Soft Landing
Take Me as I Am, Whoever I Am
Take Me as I Am, Whoever I Am

Birds

In Defense of My Emu Tattoo
How a Bird Feeder Revived My Marriage

Birth Control And Family Planning

Would Our Two New Lives Include a Third?

Birth Defects

My First Lesson in Motherhood

Bitcoin (Currency)

Are Bitcoins More Real Than Boyfriends?

Black People

Trying to Feel Love-Worthy (While Working for a Dating App)
Firefighter Chases Woman Down Street
I Broke Up With Her Because She’s White
Love to Love You, Baby
Who’s Allowed to Hold Hands?
Confronting Race, Religion and Her Heart
Race Wasn’t an Issue to Him, Which Was an Issue to Me
Race Wasn’t an Issue to Him, Which Was an Issue to Me

Blindness

After Losing My Sight, Struggling to Be Seen
Together Always, in Darkness and in Light
Seeing the World Through My Wife’s Eyes
Seeing the World Through my Wife's Eyes

Bone Cancer

We Needed More Significant Others

Bonnaffons, Amy

Shedding Skins at the Zoo

Bookcourt (Brooklyn, Ny, Retailer)

A Single Mom Escapes the Friend Zone, One Non-Date at a Time

Boomer, Tim

The End of Small Talk

Bosnia And Herzegovina

A Kiss Deferred by Civil War

Botton, Sari

He Forgot to Call? Oh, No Big Deal.

Boxing

What Boxing Taught Me About Love

Boylan, Jennifer Finney

When a Dad’s Secret Changes Everything

Brain

Are You My Husband?
My Husband Survived; the Man I Married Didn’t

Bread

He Seduced Me With Bread

Bridges And Tunnels

The Bike That Saved My Life

Bronx (Nyc)

Destined to Marry the Cute Bartender

Brooks Dalton, Lily

Love and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Buddhism

On My Wedding Day, Wishing I Looked Like Someone Else
Is God Just Not That Into Me?

Bullies

When Mothers Bully Back

Burning Man Festival

Making Space in Marriage, Even as the Walls Close In

Burroughs, Augusten

Losing a ‘Boyfriend,’ the Best Way Possible

Bushwick (Brooklyn, Ny)

For 13 Days, I Believed Him
Love to Love You, Baby

Business Travel

The Art of Being Apart

Cancer

We Needed More Significant Others
‘You Should Break Up With Me’
As He Cut My Hair, I Wept
Shooing Carolers Away for a Love That Stays
Taking My Ex Back In (for His Own Good)
Escaping From a Dire Diagnosis on Match.com
When a Couch Is More Than a Couch
A Path to Fatherhood, With (Shared) Morning Sickness
What Luck Means Now
A Second Embrace, With Hearts and Eyes Open
Could I Forgive Him One Last Time?
The Leaves Had Fallen. Where Was Spring?
The Kindness, and Xanax, of Strangers
Rescued by an Israeli Soldier
As Survivors, We Were Closer Than Lovers
Our Story Ended With a Slow Fade to Black
Mortality Can Be a Powerful Aphrodisiac
A Devotion That Eclipsed the Family
A Devotion That Eclipsed the Family
Something Like Motherhood
A Body Scarred, a Marriage Healed

Cats

She Lost Her Acrylic Nail in a Pie
How a Kitten Eased My Partner’s Depression
The Day the House Blew Up
The Day the House Blew Up

Central Park (Nyc)

A Leap of Faith

Chairs

Mélange à Trois: Me, Him and the Stuff
Mélange à Trois: Me, Him ... and the Stuff

Cheating

A Girl Could Get Cornered in a Tiny House
A Girl Could Get Cornered in a Tiny House

Child Care

The New Nanny Diaries Are Online
The New Nanny Diaries Are Online

Children And Youth

Maternal Wisdom (5 Pounds’ Worth)
Tunneling to the Core of Family
Across the Threshold of Fatherhood
The Triangle’s Sharpest Point
Open Adoption: Not So Simple Math
Could I Forgive Him One Last Time?
To Nurture Again, With Courage
For the Boy Who Makes Waves
Dear Birth Mother, Please Hit ‘Reply’
A Time to Put Aside the Armor
Raising a Princess Single-Handedly
In My Mother, a Fear Stripped Bare
The Tiny Hand That Robs the Cradle
Disassembling My Childhood
When One of Me Suddenly Became Three
The Man I Wish Was Your Father
How I Turned Into a Stepmonster
A Father on Poster Board Just Won’t Do
I Saw a Playhouse, My Daughter Saw a Jail
Who Is This Child? And What Will He Be Next?
Live Without Me. I’ll Understand.
Will That Child Step Off the Screen and Into Our Lives?
Will That Child Step Off the Screen and Into Our Lives?
Fatherhood, I Now Learn, Is a Young Man’s Game
A Winter of Discontent, Then Along Comes Baby
Figure It Out? Figure It Out? O.K., You Figure It Out!
Figure It Out? Figure It Out? O.K., You Figure It Out!
Father and Daughter: One Final Connection
Father and Daughter: One Final Connection
Online Images Open a Heart, Then a Home
Online Images Open a Heart, Then a Home
Mother Must Muzzle the Nuzzle
Mother Must Muzzle the Nuzzle
Sending a Lost Boy to the Wilderness to Find Himself
Sending a Lost Boy to the Wilderness to Find Himself
Adolescence, Without a Roadmap
Something Like Motherhood
MODERN LOVE

Classical Music

So He Looked Like Dad. It Was Just Dinner, Right?
So He Looked Like Dad. It Was Just Dinner, Right?

Computers And The Internet

‘You Feel Good. Is This Good?’
First I Met My Children, Then My Girlfriend. They’re Related.
Am I Gay or Straight? Maybe This Fun Quiz Will Tell Me
After a Breakup, an App to Help Breathe, Then Run
The Internet Thinks I’m Still Pregnant
Putting Love to the Stress Test
Swearing Off the Modern Man
Finally Stepping Out From Behind the Computer
Even in Real Life, There Were Screens Between Us
My Very Own Cyberstalker
Instant Message, Instant Girlfriend
Someone to Watch Over Me (on a Google Map)
Someone to Watch Over Me (on a Google Map)
You're Not Sick, You're Just In Love
You're Not Sick, You're Just in Love
Online Images Open a Heart, Then a Home
Online Images Open a Heart, Then a Home
Point 1: We Had Fun. Point 2: It's Over. Point 3: Get Lost.
Point 1: We Had Fun. Point 2: It's Over. Point 3: Get Lost.
Cubicle Cupid: Nothing Personal
Traveling the Too-Much-Information Highway
Traveling the Too-Much-Information Highway
Just Friends? Let Me Read Between the Lines

Cooperatives

A Girl Could Get Cornered in a Tiny House
A Girl Could Get Cornered in a Tiny House
Elvis and My Husband Have Left the Building

Cowboys And Cowgirls

Rancho Paradise Lost
Rancho Paradise Lost

California

A Father, a Son and a Fighting Chance
The Joy of Marriage Was Ours, for a While
Who's That Lady in the Bedroom, Daddy?
Cubicle Cupid: Nothing Personal

Cambodia

At Sea, and Seeking a Safe Harbor

Camps And Camping

A Diesel Engine Woke Up Our Marriage

Canada

‘His Shirtless Picture Caught My Eye’
A World Away, a Wish Answered

Candy

In Bitter Moments, Reaching for the Sweet

Careers And Professions

How I Fell for an ‘I’m the Man’ Man
Is the Husband Going to Be a Problem?

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

Mary Chapin Carpenter Reads ‘The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap’

Casinos

Please Take My Son’s Wallet

Caste Systems

‘His Shirtless Picture Caught My Eye’

Celebrities

How Hollywood Ruined Me for Romance

Celibacy

Love Calls, and So Does the Priesthood

Cellular Telephones

After a Breakup, an App to Help Breathe, Then Run
Someone to Watch Over Me (on a Google Map)
R We D8ting?

Cemeteries

‘I See the Worst of Myself in Her’
Wishing the World Could Be More Soft
An Extra Angel on Top of the Tree

Central Valley (Calif)

‘I Taught Her How to Amputate a Leg’

Chennai (India)

‘She Was Too Cool to Wear a Costume’

Chess

How I Fell for an ‘I’m the Man’ Man
‘You Need to Take My Son to Jail’

Chicago (Ill)

‘We Met, and Then the City Shut Down’

Child Abuse And Neglect

How ‘Lolita’ Freed Me From My Own Humbert
Healing Sought (Bring Your Own Magic)

Children And Childhood

‘The Loneliness He Made Me Feel’
Why Would My Father Not Want to Know Me?
Face It, Mom and Dad: I’m Not Special
‘How Come You Rarely Told Me You Loved Me?’
‘The Most Beautiful Hands I’ve Ever Seen’
When Sturdy Love Is What You Need
Motherless, but Growing Toward the Light
It’s Us Against a Particle of Dust
When Even a Toddler Can Tell You Don’t Belong
The Secret to Sibling Success
Chained to the Hearth or Warmed by It?
How to Break Up With a 2-Year-Old
After the Affair
A Role I Was Born to Play
Untying a Birth Mother’s Hands

China

Going Back to China in Search of My Daughter’s Secret Past
My First Lesson in Motherhood
A Leap of Faith

Chinese Americans

Junk Food Was Our Love Language
‘Lenny Was Supposed to Fall for the Other Iris’
To Keep but Not Be Kept

Cholera

A Glance (and a Rooster) That Changed Everything

Christians And Christianity

Love Calls, and So Does the Priesthood
When Eve and Eve Bit the Apple
When Eve and Eve Bit the Apple
After a First Time, Many Second Thoughts
I Will Be Your Mother Figure
An Agnostic’s Guide to Marriage

Christmas

6 Tiny Love Stories for the Holiday Season
‘A Dishonest, Possibly-Cheating-on-Me Boyfriend’
The Mystery of the Holiday Fruitcake, Solved!
Shooing Carolers Away for a Love That Stays
One Reason Not to Believe in Santa Claus
An Extra Angel on Top of the Tree
A Holiday Built on Presence, Not Presents
The Magi at 40,000 Feet
A String of Bulbs Was Our Guiding Star
The Holiday of My Dreams Was Just That

Clark, Justin Tyler

In a Foreign Land With Something to Declare

Clevesy, Deanna

Security in a Bright Yellow Suitcase

Coates, Ta Nehisi

I Broke Up With Her Because She’s White

Cold War Era

Breaking Free From the Nesting Doll

Collectors And Collections

My Father Has a Second Family in His Bedroom

Colleges And Universities

As the Ball Dropped, Our Life Fell Apart
Modern Love College Essay Contest
Not Friends? Then No Benefits
A Dream Deferred
My Dropout Boyfriend Kept Dropping In
I Fell for a Man Who Wore an Electronic Ankle Bracelet
Seeing the World Through My Wife’s Eyes
So Handsome, So Clever, So Gone

Collins, Phil

Who's That Lady in the Bedroom, Daddy?

Collins, Tom

When Trump vs. Clinton Becomes a Family Affair

Colombia

I Broke Up With Her Because She’s White

Colon

‘You Should Break Up With Me’
Marooned on ‘Love Island’
As Survivors, We Were Closer Than Lovers

Colon And Colorectal Cancer

‘You Should Break Up With Me’

Colonoscopy

Marooned on ‘Love Island’

Communes

We Needed More Significant Others

Commuting

The Bike That Saved My Life
Me? I'm Just Fine (Whimper). Really (Sob).

Computer And Video Games

Feeling Lonely? Wearing Cat Ears May Help
Words With (I Wish We Were More Than) Friends

Connecticut

Beyond Divorce and Even Death, a Promise Kept

Convertibles (Autos)

On a Serpentine Road, With the Top Down

Coronavirus (2019 Ncov)

Junk Food Was Our Love Language
I Was Done Dating. Then I Joined a Hookup App.
‘A Never-Been-Kissed 23-Year-Old’
My Best Friend Is Gone, and Nothing Feels Right
As He Cut My Hair, I Wept
‘A Tipsy, Celebratory State of Bliss’
Together.
My Quarantine Boyfriend Lost Everything (but Found Me)
Why Are All the Exes Texting?
‘It’s OK if You Meet Someone’
‘A Picture of Me Looking at You’
Mothering While Deaf in a Newly Quiet World
When It’s Either Your Ex, or Nobody, for Months
‘In Her World, There’s No Pandemic Outside’
The End of the Long-Distance Marriage
‘Alone in My Room, Crying, Eating Cake’
Widow Walks Into Wall, Finds Hope
Relationships Move Fast on a Slow Cargo Ship
‘We Met, and Then the City Shut Down’
On the Front Lines of a Pandemic, ‘I Love You’ Can Mean ‘Goodbye’

Court, Emma

A Millennial’s Guide to Kissing

Couzin Frankel, Jennifer

After a Suicide, a Security Guard for the Heart

Craigslist

A Craigslist ‘Missed Connection’ Lure
In the Clicks of a Mouse, a Betrayal

Credit And Money Cards

My Husband May Out-Mom Me

Cremation

He’s Going Back to His Former Wife. Sort Of.
Fatherly Memories Scattered to the Wind

Cruser, Sage

Cropped Out of My Own Fantasy

Cuba

Taking Marriage Class at Guantánamo

Cystic Fibrosis

Face It, Mom and Dad: I’m Not Special
When Love Isn’t as Simple as Standing by Your Man
Giving Myself Consent to Let Go

Deaths (Obituaries)

Are You There, Dad? It’s Me, Alice
Affirmation, Etched in Vinyl
A Devotion That Eclipsed the Family
A Devotion That Eclipsed the Family

Dogs

Not Saying My Dog Is Cupid, but …
After Losing My Sight, Struggling to Be Seen
She Wanted a Man With a Good Job Who Is Nice to Animals
‘In the Summer, We Sleep Naked’
Your Dog Has Seen Me Naked
Pudge Will Keep Us Together
Opening the Heart’s Floodgates, With a Paw
Learning Humanity From Dogs
Recalling Painful Lessons in Forgiveness
Picking Up the Scent on the Road to Bliss
Four-Legged Reason to Keep It Together
An Affection Multiplier, With Four Feet and Wet Nose
Snappish at First, Now All Warm and Fuzzy
Seeing the World Through My Wife’s Eyes
This Is Where the Dog Comes In
This Is Where the Dog Comes In

Drunken And Reckless Driving

Out From Under the Influence
Out From Under the Influence

Damascus (Syria)

Grappling With the Language of Love

Dancing

Taking a Step Forward
Live Without Me. I’ll Understand.

Demarco, Peter

Overcoming Love Addiction: One Apple Martini at a Time

Deafness

Mothering While Deaf in a Newly Quiet World

Death And Dying

My Best Friend Is Gone, and Nothing Feels Right
A Future Without Him, Aided by Duct Tape
During a Night of Casual Sex, Urgent Messages Go Unanswered
You May Want to Marry My Husband
A Heart Filled With Love, Not Stuff
Missing a Father I Hardly Knew
A Generous (and Unwanted) Gift
In a Balm of Space and Time, Healing
Sad News Like a Warm Hug Goodbye
Watching Them Watching Me
Making a Judgment on Love
Keeping Them Company at the End
Sweetest at the End
Helped to Heal by a Stranger’s Truth
Could I Forgive Him One Last Time?
Giving Myself Consent to Let Go
Just One Last Swirl Around the Bowl
Faithful to His Memory, and His Mother
My Parents Couldn’t Outlive, or Outrun, Each Other
Our Story Ended With a Slow Fade to Black
Mortality Can Be a Powerful Aphrodisiac
Mortality Can Be a Powerful Aphrodisiac

Deaths (Fatalities)

‘I Couldn’t Ignore What That Silence Told Me’
One Bouquet of Fleeting Beauty, Please

Delays (Transportation)

Live Without Me. I’ll Understand.

Diabetes

‘You Should Break Up With Me’

Diamonds

I Measured My Commitment in Carats

Dillard's Inc

I Would Have Driven Her Anywhere

Dillon, Sophie

A Romance That’s Extra Zesty

Disabilities

Mothering While Deaf in a Newly Quiet World
How 30 Blocks Became 30 Years
Finding My Own Rescuer
Unraveling a Dark Family Secret

Discovery Channel

A Bad Case of Puppy Love

Discrimination

When a Dating Dare Leads to Months of Soul Searching
With the Birth of My Son, I Stopped Hiding
Bringing Home the Wrong Race
Race Wasn’t an Issue to Him, Which Was an Issue to Me

Dishwashers And Dishwashing

Discovering Manhood in Soapy Bubbles

Djibouti

A Child of Two Worlds

Doctors

On the Front Lines of a Pandemic, ‘I Love You’ Can Mean ‘Goodbye’
Is There a Doctor in the Marriage?
Nursing a Wound in an Appropriate Setting

Domestic Violence

Replaying the Past, to a New Soundtrack
The View From the Victim Room

Dominican Republic

I Broke Up With Her Because She’s White
My Secret Left Me Unable to Help

Donor Sibling Registry

First I Met My Children, Then My Girlfriend. They’re Related.

Dreams

A Dream, or a Premonition, Leads to a New Beginning

Dresses

A Little Lint and Suddenly You’re Bridezilla
A Prince Charming for the Prom (Not Ever After, Though)

Drug Abuse And Traffic

How My Father Escaped Jail for Christmas
I Dulled Her Pain, and My Judgment
I Dulled Her Pain, and My Judgment

E Mail

Are You There, Dad? It’s Me, Alice

Eagles, The

‘You Need to Take My Son to Jail’

Electronic Mail

A Dream Deferred
You're Not Sick, You're Just In Love
You're Not Sick, You're Just in Love

Emus (Birds)

In Defense of My Emu Tattoo

Explosions

The Day the House Blew Up
The Day the House Blew Up

Earthquakes

A Glance (and a Rooster) That Changed Everything

Eating Disorders

The Unhealthy Math of Skinny + Pretty = Good
Chubby, Skinny, Accepting
Part of a Whole, but Still Me

Eclipses

My Husband Wore Really Tight Shorts to the Eclipse Party
17 Million Frozen Sperm Await the Perfect Moment

Economics (Theory And Philosophy)

Whimsy Just Doesn’t Show Up on a Spreadsheet

Education (K 12)

“I Googled ‘Crisis’”

Education And Schools

The Tiny Hand That Robs the Cradle

Egg Donation And Freezing

Don’t Put All Your (Frozen) Eggs in One Basket

Elderly

‘In Her World, There’s No Pandemic Outside’
At What Age Is Love Enthralling? 82
When Your Greatest Romance Is a Friendship
Refreshing a Mother’s Memory With Love and Stories
My Father’s Last Romance
Replaying the Past, to a New Soundtrack
Age Is No Obstacle to Love, or Adventure
The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap
The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap
Yes, We Do. Even at Our Age.
A Memory Magically Interrupted

Elections

‘I Worried About Telling Him My Age’
How My Husband Won Back My Vote

Elections, Governors

‘I Worried About Telling Him My Age’

England

His Family Had Money. Mine Didn’t.
Marooned on ‘Love Island’
How I Lost the Fiancé but Won the Honeymoon
When Even a Toddler Can Tell You Don’t Belong

Europe

Losing My Way Has Been a Way of Life for Me
Losing My Way Has Been a Way of Life for Me

Evictions

As the Ball Dropped, Our Life Fell Apart

Eyes And Eyesight

Live Without Me. I’ll Understand.

Fires And Firefighters

Passage to India, by Way of an Elevator
The Day the House Blew Up
The Day the House Blew Up

Fishing, Sport

A Devotion That Eclipsed the Family
A Devotion That Eclipsed the Family

Forster, E M

Loved and Lost? It's O.K., Especially if You Win
Loved and Lost? It's O.K., Especially if You Win

Friendship

My Best Friend Is Gone, and Nothing Feels Right
As He Cut My Hair, I Wept
This Is What Happens When Friends Fall in Love
My Platonic Romance on the Psych Ward
Escaping From a Dire Diagnosis on Match.com
From Best Man to Puzzled Woman
When Your Greatest Romance Is a Friendship
A Culture Gap the Size of an Ocean, Bridged by Facebook
How I Came to Live in a Chair Emporium
An Extra Angel on Top of the Tree
A Life Plan for Two, Followed by One
Though Now Apart, We Faced a Common Enemy
Finally Stepping Out From Behind the Computer
Friends Without Benefits
After the Affair
Four-Legged Reason to Keep It Together
Revenge of the Friend
Was I on a Date or Baby-Sitting?
Our Joy Knows No Bounds, or Lanes
My Sorority Pledge? I Swore Off Sisterhood
The Man I Wish Was Your Father
Maturity Was Just Too Messy for Me
My Three Years as a Beloved Daughter
A Friendship Too Tight for Breathing Room
Ah, to Be Old, Male and Single
She Handed Me a Cup From the Fountain of Youth
Live Without Me. I’ll Understand.
Someone to Watch Over Me (on a Google Map)
Someone to Watch Over Me (on a Google Map)
Loved and Lost? It's O.K., Especially if You Win
Loved and Lost? It's O.K., Especially if You Win

Furniture

The Junk Removers Manhandle My Heart
When a Couch Is More Than a Couch
Mélange à Trois: Me, Him and the Stuff
Mélange à Trois: Me, Him ... and the Stuff

Face

A Culture Gap the Size of an Ocean, Bridged by Facebook
He’s Playing Our Song
My Husband Is Now My Wife
My Husband Is Now My Wife
The Boundaries of a Breakup
Dear Birth Mother, Please Hit ‘Reply’

Facebook Inc

A Culture Gap the Size of an Ocean, Bridged by Facebook
He’s Playing Our Song

Facebook.Com

The Boundaries of a Breakup
Dear Birth Mother, Please Hit ‘Reply’

Falls

Celebrating the Upside of an Emotional Plunge

Fashion And Apparel

‘The Twin Bed We Were Forced to Share’
He’s Never Going to Put Away That Shirt
My Husband Wore Really Tight Shorts to the Eclipse Party
All Twisted Up by Gender Bending

Fast Food Industry

Junk Food Was Our Love Language

Father's Day

Why Would My Father Not Want to Know Me?
My Father Has a Second Family in His Bedroom
My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me
A Father, a Son and a Fighting Chance

Felicelli, Anita

Finally Stepping Out From Behind the Computer

Fields, Rachel

The Five Stages of Ghosting Grief

Film Forum

Froky Doesn't Play Around Here Anymore

Finances

When Bliss Is a Mutual Fund
The Accidental Breadwinner
My Husband May Out-Mom Me
‘La Bohème’ Is Romantic, as Long as I’m Not the Star

Finland

Catfishing Strangers to Find Myself

Fish And Other Marine Life

Just One Last Swirl Around the Bowl

Floods

A Wave of Good Indicators

Florence (Italy)

When You Wish Upon a Saint, Watch What You Ask For

Florida

An Itemized Marriage Proposal via Voice Mail

Florists

One Bouquet of Fleeting Beauty, Please

Flowers And Plants

‘The Loneliness He Made Me Feel’
Motherless, but Growing Toward the Light
One Bouquet of Fleeting Beauty, Please
A Flower Delivery That Brought More Pain Than Pleasure

Food

Junk Food Was Our Love Language
‘She Is Not a Mistake’
The Mystery of the Holiday Fruitcake, Solved!
Finding God in a Hot Slice of Pizza
Overfed on a Mother’s Affection
My Mother’s Imposed Fast: I Feel Her Hunger
My Dinners With Andrew

Football

The Patriots Made a Man of Me, in a Manner of Speaking

Foreign Workers

Love Forged by the Threat of Deportation

Fort Wayne (Ind)

For 13 Days, I Believed Him

Foster Care

Just Holding on Through the Curves
The Holiday of My Dreams Was Just That

Fraternities And Sororities

My Sorority Pledge? I Swore Off Sisterhood

Frauds And Swindling

How I Got Caught Up in a Global Romance Scam

Gas (Fuel)

The Day the House Blew Up
The Day the House Blew Up

Greenport (Ny)

The Day the House Blew Up
The Day the House Blew Up

Gardens And Gardening

‘Sometimes a Romantic Plan Isn’t Enough’
Motherless, but Growing Toward the Light

Gelles, Susan M

Single, and Surrounded by a Wall of Men

Gender

Will They See Me as a Son, a Daughter or a Stranger?
‘How Do You Think I Got Thighs Like These?’
‘I Couldn’t Breathe — or Cancel’
When Neither Male Nor Female Seems to Fit
The Physics of Forbidden Love
From He to She in First Grade
All Twisted Up by Gender Bending
From Humiliation to Appreciation
My Husband Is Now My Wife
My Husband Is Now My Wife
Stuck at the Border Between the Sexes
The Anatomy of a Breakup
‘Maddy’ Just Might Work After All
‘Maddy’ Just Might Work After All
The Sea Horse, Our Family Mascot

Genetics And Heredity

Race Wasn’t an Issue to Him, Which Was an Issue to Me
His Genes Hold Gifts. Mine Carry Risk.

German Language

Even in English, a Language Gap

Ghosts

The Ghost Was the Least of Our Problems

Gifts

‘A Dishonest, Possibly-Cheating-on-Me Boyfriend’
My Father Has a Second Family in His Bedroom
The Mystery of the Holiday Fruitcake, Solved!
Uniting a Mysterious Ring With Its Rightful Owner
The Gift Was as Flimsy as My Rationale
Speaking at Arm’s Length With Music
A Dream Deferred

Global Positioning System

Another Voice Had Come Between Us

Goldstein, Lindsey

To Text or Not to Text: A Dating Conundrum

Goodman, Peter S

Superheroes, Just for Each Other

Google Inc

So, Tell Me Everything I Know About You
R We D8ting?

Google Maps

Tracking the Demise of My Marriage on Google Maps

Gorder, Alisha

One Bouquet of Fleeting Beauty, Please

Graffiti

The Tiny Hand That Robs the Cradle

Grammar

Learning to Silence My Inner Editor

Grand Canyon (Ariz)

We Asked for Epic Love in 100 Words. 3,000 Responded.

Grand Central Terminal (Nyc)

Me? I'm Just Fine (Whimper). Really (Sob).

Grandparents

She Stood In for My Mother. Could I Do the Same for Her?
‘I See the Worst of Myself in Her’
‘We Met, and Then the City Shut Down’
Unraveling a Dark Family Secret
A Time to Put Aside the Armor
A Memory Magically Interrupted

Greenpoint (Nyc)

He’s Playing Our Song
That’s My Pride Beneath the Love Train

Grief (Emotion)

My Best Friend Is Gone, and Nothing Feels Right
Widow Walks Into Wall, Finds Hope
A Simple Question That’s Too Hard to Answer
Clinging to Each Other, We Survived the Storm
A Husband Lost, a Daughter Found
Moving Through Grief, Chair by Chair
A Forgotten Prayer, Answered
Dust to Dust: An Affair Post 9/11

Grindr.Com

‘Should I Download Grindr Again?’

Groner, Anya

Is There a Doctor in the Marriage?

Guards

‘You Need to Take My Son to Jail’

Guatemala

Untying a Birth Mother’s Hands

Guitars

Sleeping With the Guitar Player

Gymboree

Truly, Madly, Guiltily

Hair

As He Cut My Hair, I Wept
The Tallest Man I Ever Loved
Driving 2,130 Miles for a Haircut
Divorce and a Haircut, Two Bits
Mélange à Trois: Me, Him and the Stuff
Mélange à Trois: Me, Him ... and the Stuff
Mother Must Muzzle the Nuzzle
Mother Must Muzzle the Nuzzle

Horses

When My Mother Called Out the Posse
Rancho Paradise Lost
Rancho Paradise Lost

Housing

Staying Together by Living Apart (in a Duplex)
A Generous (and Unwanted) Gift
The Wisdom of the Moving Man
‘You Need to Take My Son to Jail’
A Girl Could Get Cornered in a Tiny House
A Girl Could Get Cornered in a Tiny House
Truly, Madly, Guiltily

Hugging

Mother Must Muzzle the Nuzzle
Mother Must Muzzle the Nuzzle

Hurricane Katrina

The Rubble of My Marriage, Hidden by Katrina’s

Hairspray (Play)

The Tallest Man I Ever Loved

Haiti

A Glance (and a Rooster) That Changed Everything

Halloween

‘She Was Too Cool to Wear a Costume’

Ham

Need to Find Me? Ask My Ham Man

Handicapped

Would My Heart Outrun Its Pursuer?
Would My Heart Outrun Its Pursuer?
In a Charmed Life, a Road Less Traveled
Adolescence, Without a Roadmap

Hanukkah

6 Tiny Love Stories for the Holiday Season
A New Year’s Instagram Flirtation
‘A Dishonest, Possibly-Cheating-on-Me Boyfriend’

Happiness

In the New Year, More Cuddling

Hartzog Mislock, Deenie

A Boyfriend Too Good to Be True

Harvard University

So Handsome, So Clever, So Gone

Hats And Caps

As a Father, I Was Hardly a Perfect Fit

Haunted Houses

The Ghost Was the Least of Our Problems

Health Clubs

What I Learned From My Instagram Crush
In My Fantasy, I Caught Up to Reality

Health Insurance And Managed Care

When the Toast Is: ‘To Your Health’

Hearing Aids

No Hearing Aids? Then No Marriage

Heart

Preparing My Family for Life Without Me
For a 30-Year-Old Virgin, It’s Now or Never

Henley, Don

‘You Need to Take My Son to Jail’

Hezbollah

It Took a War, but I Finally Moved in With My Husband
It Took a War, but I Finally Moved in With My Husband

Hikes And Hiking

How the ‘Dining Dead’ Got Talking Again
Celebrating the Upside of an Emotional Plunge
A Hiker’s Guide to Healing

Hill, Melissa

Can Tylenol Help Heal a Broken Heart?

Hinduism

The Heart Said Yes; the Horoscope Said No

Hinge (Mobile App)

When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist
When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist

Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)

Why Did She Leave Me There?

Hoarding

Making Room for My Junk Man

Hoaxes And Pranks

Catfishing Strangers to Find Myself

Home Health Care

Would My Heart Outrun Its Pursuer?
Would My Heart Outrun Its Pursuer?

Homeless Persons

My Dropout Boyfriend Kept Dropping In

Homosexuality

What I Learned From My Instagram Crush
Two Open Marriages in One Small Room
It Wasn’t Me He Wanted
New Hope, New Pain, Same Old Divorce
The House Where My Husband Doesn’t Exist
The Tallest Man I Ever Loved
My Relationship Guru Is a 14-Year-Old Girl
We Asked for Epic Love in 100 Words. 3,000 Responded.
Talking to My Fiancé About My New Girlfriend
Flying Close to Temptation
Am I Gay or Straight? Maybe This Fun Quiz Will Tell Me
Mom: ‘Is He Jewish?’ Me: ‘No.’ Mom: ‘Is He Smart?’
Who’s Allowed to Hold Hands?
During a Night of Casual Sex, Urgent Messages Go Unanswered
White Shirt, Black Name Tag, Big Secret
After 264 Haircuts, a Marriage Ends
Catfishing Strangers to Find Myself
When Eve and Eve Bit the Apple
When Eve and Eve Bit the Apple
Dear Dad: We’ve Been Gay for a Really Long Time
At Sea, and Seeking a Safe Harbor
It’s Been a Long Time Coming
Learning to Embrace Sexuality’s Gray Areas
I Will Be Your Mother Figure
A Choice Not as Easy as It Looked
Losing a ‘Boyfriend,’ the Best Way Possible
A Role I Was Born to Play
Newly Wed and Quickly Unraveling
A Father, a Son and a Fighting Chance
A Twist of Fate
Perfect, With Childbearing Hips
The Anatomy of a Breakup
Mom/Not Mom/Aunt
We’ll Marry Each Other as Often as Needed
A Brother as Significant as Any Other
The Joy of Marriage Was Ours, for a While
The Man I Wish Was Your Father
An Ancient Coda to My 21st-Century Divorce
If We Met in a Former Life, Maybe He Was Straight Then
Close Enough for Momma, Too Close for Me
Fatherly Memories Scattered to the Wind
Married, but Certainly Not to Tradition
Married, but Certainly Not to Tradition
A Prince Charming for the Prom (Not Ever After, Though)
Back From the Front, With Honor, a Warrior's Truth
The Patriots Made a Man of Me, in a Manner of Speaking
Jill and Jill Live on the Hill, but One Must Boil the Water

Homosexuality And Bisexuality

What I Learned From My Instagram Crush
Two Open Marriages in One Small Room
It Wasn’t Me He Wanted
New Hope, New Pain, Same Old Divorce
The House Where My Husband Doesn’t Exist
The Tallest Man I Ever Loved
My Relationship Guru Is a 14-Year-Old Girl
We Asked for Epic Love in 100 Words. 3,000 Responded.
Talking to My Fiancé About My New Girlfriend
Flying Close to Temptation
Am I Gay or Straight? Maybe This Fun Quiz Will Tell Me
Mom: ‘Is He Jewish?’ Me: ‘No.’ Mom: ‘Is He Smart?’
Who’s Allowed to Hold Hands?
During a Night of Casual Sex, Urgent Messages Go Unanswered
White Shirt, Black Name Tag, Big Secret
After 264 Haircuts, a Marriage Ends
Catfishing Strangers to Find Myself
When Eve and Eve Bit the Apple
When Eve and Eve Bit the Apple
Dear Dad: We’ve Been Gay for a Really Long Time
At Sea, and Seeking a Safe Harbor
It’s Been a Long Time Coming
Learning to Embrace Sexuality’s Gray Areas
I Will Be Your Mother Figure

Honda Motor Co Ltd

I Would Have Driven Her Anywhere

Honeymoons

How I Lost the Fiancé but Won the Honeymoon
A Crash Course in Honeymoon Survival

Hood, Ann

To Nurture Again, With Courage

Hosetter, Mary Alice

Dear Dad: We’ve Been Gay for a Really Long Time

Hospice Care

How My Father Escaped Jail for Christmas

Hospitals

Marooned on ‘Love Island’
Shooing Carolers Away for a Love That Stays

Houston, Whitney

‘That Poor Pumpkin Needs Someone to Love It’

Hunger Strikes

Taking Marriage Class at Guantánamo

Hurricane Sandy (2012)

A Disaster Scenario, Rewritten

Hydraulic Fracturing

A Life That Can Fracture a Relationship

Hygiene And Cleanliness

Please Forgive My Spotless Home

Hypochondria

How Hypochondriacs Say ‘I Love You’

Hysterectomies

My Biological Clock Can’t Tick Fast Enough

Immigration And Refugees

Live Without Me. I’ll Understand.

Infertility

Don’t Put All Your (Frozen) Eggs in One Basket
Pushed Into the Future When Illness Strikes (in an Unlikely Place)
My Biological Clock Can’t Tick Fast Enough
It Was in Giving That They Received
A Forgotten Prayer, Answered
Alone on a Path Shared by Many
Giving Myself Consent to Let Go
My Clock Was Already Ticking
The Sea Horse, Our Family Mascot
The Blank Space in Our Family Album
A Surrogate Dries Her Tears
A Surrogate Dries Her Tears

Iarovici, Doris

On a Serpentine Road, With the Top Down

Identity Fraud

G.P.S. for My Lost Identity

Ikea

Neighbor Bro Smashes My Romantic Fantasy

Immigration

In My Sari, Kissing the Soccer Coach
Telling the Truth Wasn’t an Option
Going Back to China in Search of My Daughter’s Secret Past
With the Birth of My Son, I Stopped Hiding
‘We Sometimes Pretend We Are Strangers’
On My Wedding Day, Wishing I Looked Like Someone Else
Love Forged by the Threat of Deportation
‘Happiness Is Incomplete’: A Refugee Couple’s Scattered Lives
An American Dream I Couldn’t Share
Live Without Me. I’ll Understand.

Immigration Detention

‘We Sometimes Pretend We Are Strangers’
Love Forged by the Threat of Deportation

Immigration And Emigration

In My Sari, Kissing the Soccer Coach
With the Birth of My Son, I Stopped Hiding
On My Wedding Day, Wishing I Looked Like Someone Else
Love Forged by the Threat of Deportation
‘Happiness Is Incomplete’: A Refugee Couple’s Scattered Lives

Immune System

On My Wedding Day, Wishing I Looked Like Someone Else

Impostors (Criminal)

How I Got Caught Up in a Global Romance Scam

In Vitro Fertilization

When Sturdy Love Is What You Need
After a Parent’s Death, a Rush of Change

India

‘His Shirtless Picture Caught My Eye’
‘She Was Too Cool to Wear a Costume’
‘Our Families Couldn’t Know’
How I Lost the Fiancé but Won the Honeymoon
How a Bird Feeder Revived My Marriage
In a Balm of Space and Time, Healing
What’s Alikeness Got to Do With It?
Welcomed With Open Arms in Mumbai
My Mother’s Imposed Fast: I Feel Her Hunger
First Comes Marriage
Mom, Dad, Let Me Find My Own Husband

Indian Americans

My Mother’s Imposed Fast: I Feel Her Hunger
Mom, Dad, Let Me Find My Own Husband

Instagram Inc

My So-Called (Instagram) Life

Instant Messaging

Swearing Off the Modern Man

Interior Design And Furnishings

How I Came to Live in a Chair Emporium

International Relations

It Took a War, but I Finally Moved in With My Husband
It Took a War, but I Finally Moved in With My Husband
Diary of a Soldier's Wife: Tie-Dye and Camo Don't Mix

Iquitos (Peru)

A Crash Course in Honeymoon Survival

Iran

Reaching Out Between the Bars
In My Mother, a Fear Stripped Bare

Iraq

The Quiet Side of Being a Soldier’s Other Half
Marry a Man Who Loves His Mother
My Deployment as a War Bride
May I Have This Dance?
Diary of a Soldier's Wife: Tie-Dye and Camo Don't Mix
Back From the Front, With Honor, a Warrior's Truth

Iraq War (2003 )

The Quiet Side of Being a Soldier’s Other Half
Marry a Man Who Loves His Mother

Israel

‘His Shirtless Picture Caught My Eye’
Unraveling a Dark Family Secret
Rescued by an Israeli Soldier
It Took a War, but I Finally Moved in With My Husband
It Took a War, but I Finally Moved in With My Husband

Italy

He Seduced Me With Bread
When You Wish Upon a Saint, Watch What You Ask For
When You Wish Upon a Saint, Watch What You Ask For

Jews

Finding God in a Hot Slice of Pizza
Adrift Too Long, Searching for a Navigator
What the Rabbi Said
An Ancient Coda to My 21st-Century Divorce
When a Relationship Carries the Weight of History
When a Relationship Carries the Weight of History

Jacobson, Abbi

Abbi Jacobson Reads ‘Boy, What a Fabulous Baker’

Jaksic, Jasmine

Putting Love to the Stress Test

Jamaica (Queens, Ny)

My Father Has a Second Family in His Bedroom

Jamaica (West Indies)

I Met My Husband on the Maternity Ward
Who’s Allowed to Hold Hands?

Japan

‘You Feel Good. Is This Good?’
The Kisses That Paid My Rent
A Silent Partner to Share the Path of Love

Jewels And Jewelry

It Wasn’t My Wedding Ring. It Was My Only Ring.
Uniting a Mysterious Ring With Its Rightful Owner
A Third Ring, Bearing the Most Important Truth

Jews And Judaism

Finding God in a Hot Slice of Pizza
Adrift Too Long, Searching for a Navigator
What the Rabbi Said

Jia, Claire

The Peril of Not Dying for Love

Judges

Making a Judgment on Love

Kim, A J

I Dulled Her Pain, and My Judgment

Kissing

He Asked Permission to Touch, but Not to Ghost
The Kisses That Paid My Rent
Mother Must Muzzle the Nuzzle
Mother Must Muzzle the Nuzzle

Krups

Mélange à Trois: Me, Him and the Stuff
Mélange à Trois: Me, Him ... and the Stuff

Kalish, David

A Path to Fatherhood, With (Shared) Morning Sickness

Kansas

A Leap of Faith

Kaplan, Bruce Eric

Missing a Father I Hardly Knew

Karachi (Pakistan)

In My Sari, Kissing the Soccer Coach

Kazdin, Cole

The Original Conscious Uncouplers
Chubby, Skinny, Accepting

Kidnapping

A Brother, Lost and Found

Kidneys

I Had to Do It Without Telling My Beloved
My Illness, the Third Partner in Our Relationship
Beneath the Modest Alter Ego, I See My Superhero

Kimchi (South Korean Food)

Overfed on a Mother’s Affection

Kitchens

‘We Met, and Then the City Shut Down’

Knudsen, Arla

After a First Time, Many Second Thoughts

Kondo, Marie

Making a Marriage Magically Tidy

Kosher Foods And Products

Finding God in a Hot Slice of Pizza

Kreider, Tim

‘Quirkyalone’ Is Still Alone

Kulidzan, Nikolina

A Kiss Deferred by Civil War

Labor

Honey, I Swept the Floor!
Sexy Ribbon on the Buyout Package
Paradise Lost (Domestic Division)
Paradise Lost (Domestic Division)
How Could I Tell Him What I Knew? How Could I Not?

Life Styles

Three Men and a Woman
A Prince Charming for the Prom (Not Ever After, Though)
Elvis and My Husband Have Left the Building

Labor And Jobs

Honey, I Swept the Floor!

Language And Languages

Labels of Married Life, in a New Light
Even in English, a Language Gap

Layoffs And Job Reductions

Sexy Ribbon on the Buyout Package

Leavitt, Caroline

My Touchstone and a Heart of Gold

Lebanon

It Took a War, but I Finally Moved in With My Husband
It Took a War, but I Finally Moved in With My Husband

Legal Profession

Single, and Surrounded by a Wall of Men

Leonetti, Rosie

For a Single Mother, an Alternate Reality

Letters

Pushed Together for 48 Days, Then Pulled Apart for 49
My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me

Leukemia

On My Wedding Day, Wishing I Looked Like Someone Else
Mortality Can Be a Powerful Aphrodisiac
Mortality Can Be a Powerful Aphrodisiac

Libraries And Librarians

How Bibliophiles Flirt

Lindeman, Natalie

Celebrating the Upside of an Emotional Plunge

Lingerie And Underwear

The Gift Was as Flimsy as My Rationale

Lipman, Elinor

Taking a Break for Friendship

Lizards

Taking Marriage Class at Guantánamo

Lofts

Neighbor Bro Smashes My Romantic Fantasy

London (England)

Marooned on ‘Love Island’
How I Lost the Fiancé but Won the Honeymoon
When Even a Toddler Can Tell You Don’t Belong

Loneliness

How I Got Caught Up in a Global Romance Scam

Los Angeles (Calif)

I Broke Up With Her Because She’s White
Staying Together by Living Apart (in a Duplex)
My U-Turn From Isolation to Intimacy
Looking for Signs That It’s Meant to Be
Live Without Me. I’ll Understand.

Lundquist, Adam

Learning to Embrace Sexuality’s Gray Areas

Lungs

When Love Isn’t as Simple as Standing by Your Man
A Path to Fatherhood, With (Shared) Morning Sickness

Lupus Erythematosus

Getting Married Is Better Than Dying, Right?

Lying

He Married a Sociopath: Me
For 13 Days, I Believed Him

Manhattan (Nyc)

‘We Were Never Going to Venmo the Same $15 Again’
‘How to Survive a Broken Heart (With Pictures)’
‘I’m Glad I Never Listened to Him’
Love to Love You, Baby
When the Doorman Is Your Main Man
When the Doorman Is Your Main Man
Out From Under the Influence
Out From Under the Influence

Memory

Will They See Me as a Son, a Daughter or a Stranger?
Refreshing a Mother’s Memory With Love and Stories
Promises That Can Bend Without Breaking
Never Tell Our Business to Strangers
Father and Daughter: One Final Connection
Father and Daughter: One Final Connection

Motion Pictures

A Passion for the Movies? Yes, Yes Yes!
A Passion for the Movies? Yes, Yes ... Yes!

Music

What Lou Reed Taught Me About Love
He’s Playing Our Song
Speaking at Arm’s Length With Music
The Long Way Home
So He Looked Like Dad. It Was Just Dinner, Right?
So He Looked Like Dad. It Was Just Dinner, Right?
Here's Looking at You, Kid
Here's Looking at You, Kid
Sleeping With the Guitar Player

Macron, Emmanuel (1977 )

At What Age Is Love Enthralling? 82

Madison (Wis)

Please Take My Son’s Wallet

Magic And Magicians

‘How Do You Think I Got Thighs Like These?’

Maine

Honey, I Swept the Floor!
Live Without Me. I’ll Understand.

Malinowski, Tonya

The Entire Netflix History of Us

Manila (Philippines)

‘It Soothes Me to Know Someone So Gentle’
In Manila, Two Seasons, No Regrets

Mannequins (Dummies)

My Father Has a Second Family in His Bedroom

Masks

Live Without Me. I’ll Understand.

Massage

‘His Friends Begged Me to Slap Him.’

Master Of None (Tv Program)

I Broke Up With Her Because She’s White

Mattila, Kalle Oskari

Catfishing Strangers to Find Myself

Meditation

On My Wedding Day, Wishing I Looked Like Someone Else
After a Breakup, an App to Help Breathe, Then Run
Breathe In, Breathe Out, Fall in Love

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Shooing Carolers Away for a Love That Stays

Mexico

He Had to Leave So I Could Breathe
Would Our Two New Lives Include a Third?
Live Without Me. I’ll Understand.
Live Without Me. I’ll Understand.

Mexico City (Mexico)

Live Without Me. I’ll Understand.

Midwives

A Child of Two Worlds

Millennial Generation

A Millennial’s Guide to Kissing

Miller, Julia Anne

Ready in Case the Other Shoe Should Drop

Minnesota

‘You Need to Take My Son to Jail’

Miscarriages

‘It Was Unsettling to Find Myself Still Single at 36’
‘I’m Glad I Never Listened to Him’
The Internet Thinks I’m Still Pregnant
In the Grip of Nature’s Own Form of Birth Control

Missionaries

White Shirt, Black Name Tag, Big Secret

Mobile Applications

After a Breakup, an App to Help Breathe, Then Run
The Internet Thinks I’m Still Pregnant
Try the 36 Questions on the Way to Love

Modern Bride

Bucking Wedding Conventions ... Except for One

Monasteries And Monks

A Forgotten Prayer, Answered

Monkeys And Apes

Froky Doesn't Play Around Here Anymore

Montana

‘It Soothes Me to Know Someone So Gentle’
When Sturdy Love Is What You Need

Montreal (Quebec)

‘His Shirtless Picture Caught My Eye’

Moon, Sun Myung

A Leap of Faith

Mormons (Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints)

White Shirt, Black Name Tag, Big Secret
Single, Female, Mormon, Alone
All I Wanted Was a Hug

Morning Sickness

A Path to Fatherhood, With (Shared) Morning Sickness

Morocco

My Back-Seat View of a Great Romance

Morrisroe, Patricia

Uniting a Mysterious Ring With Its Rightful Owner

Moses, Sarah

Single Woman Seeking Manwich

Mother's Day

‘A Picture of Me Looking at You’
Just Don’t Call Me Mom

Motorcycles, Motor Bikes And Motorscooters

No Hearing Aids? Then No Marriage
Love and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
His Art Is His Joy. It Just Didn't Fit My Plan.

Movies

Life Isn’t Like the Movies (Even if You Write the Movies)
When Love Seems Too Easy to Trust
The Peril of Not Dying for Love

Moving And Moving Industry

The Wisdom of the Moving Man

Muggings

From a Moment of Fear, a Lifetime of Clarity

Multiple Births

My Triplets Were Inseparable, Whatever the Risks

Mumbai (India)

How a Bird Feeder Revived My Marriage

Mumps

Pushed Into the Future When Illness Strikes (in an Unlikely Place)

Murders, Attempted Murders And Homicides

An Extra Angel on Top of the Tree

Muslims And Islam

A Culture Gap the Size of an Ocean, Bridged by Facebook

Mutual Funds

When Bliss Is a Mutual Fund

Nbc News

The Junk Removers Manhandle My Heart

New York City

My Quarantine Boyfriend Lost Everything (but Found Me)
Destined to Marry the Cute Bartender
When Love Seems Too Easy to Trust
Sharing a Cab, and My Toes
Sharing a Cab, and My Toes
When the Doorman Is Your Main Man
When the Doorman Is Your Main Man
Sex on the Run? No, We Parked
Passage to India, by Way of an Elevator
R We D8ting?
The New Nanny Diaries Are Online
The New Nanny Diaries Are Online

North Carolina

Sending a Lost Boy to the Wilderness to Find Himself
Sending a Lost Boy to the Wilderness to Find Himself

Names, Personal

Under the Spell of a Name
So Much in Common, in Name Only

National Guard

Back From the Front, With Honor, a Warrior's Truth

Nazi Policies Toward Jews And Minorities

When a Relationship Carries the Weight of History

Netflix Inc

The Entire Netflix History of Us

New Year

The Junk Removers Manhandle My Heart
The Mystery of the Holiday Fruitcake, Solved!

New York Times

Judd Apatow Reads ‘At the Hospital, an Interlude of Clarity’

New Yorker

A Single Mom Escapes the Friend Zone, One Non-Date at a Time

News And News Media

How Hollywood Ruined Me for Romance

Newspapers

Sexy Ribbon on the Buyout Package

Niger

‘No Dates, No Love, No Hope?’
How Could I Embrace a Village?
Too Bad for Me That She Was So Well Loved

Nigeria

‘No Dates, No Love, No Hope?’
How Could I Embrace a Village?

Nuns

Signs, Wonders and Fates Fulfilled

Nursing Homes

My Husband Survived; the Man I Married Didn’t
My Husband Survived; the Man I Married Didn’t

Nursing Of Infants

Nursing My Daughter, and Some Grievances
Nursing My Daughter, and Some Grievances

Oaxaca (Mexico)

He Had to Leave So I Could Breathe

Obesity

What a Scale Can’t Measure

Okcupid

I Wanted to Be Dominated. But Not Quite Like That.
Words With (I Wish We Were More Than) Friends
Putting Love to the Stress Test

Optimism

Face It, Mom and Dad: I’m Not Special

Orderliness And Clutter

Making a Marriage Magically Tidy
A Heart Filled With Love, Not Stuff

Oregon

When Sturdy Love Is What You Need

Organ Donation

I Had to Do It Without Telling My Beloved

Orphans And Orphanages

Why Did She Leave Me There?
The Triangle’s Sharpest Point

Osaka (Japan)

A Silent Partner to Share the Path of Love

Pornography And Obscenity

Seeing the World Through My Wife’s Eyes

Prisons And Prisoners

Learning to Measure Time in Love and Loss
A Life to Live, This Side of the Bars
Kept Together by the Bars Between Us
A Student of Intimacy, Step by Step
‘You Need to Take My Son to Jail’
I Need to Woman Up and Do This on My Own
I Need to Woman Up and Do This on My Own

Private And Sectarian Schools

His Family Had Money. Mine Didn’t.
Sending a Lost Boy to the Wilderness to Find Himself
Sending a Lost Boy to the Wilderness to Find Himself

Propane

The Day the House Blew Up
The Day the House Blew Up

Pacemakers

The Shirt Stays On

Pakistan

In My Sari, Kissing the Soccer Coach
‘Humility Is What Drew Me to Him’

Paranoia

Out of the Darkness

Parenting

The Day His Journal Went Blank
‘My Parents Never Called’
A Glimpse Into My Son’s Magnificent Mind
Why Would My Father Not Want to Know Me?
Mothering While Deaf in a Newly Quiet World
As the Ball Dropped, Our Life Fell Apart
Face It, Mom and Dad: I’m Not Special
When a Dad’s Secret Changes Everything
‘She Was Too Cool to Wear a Costume’
Going Back to China in Search of My Daughter’s Secret Past
He Needed Me to Remain a Fantasy
With the Birth of My Son, I Stopped Hiding
Honey, I Swept the Floor!
Motherless, but Growing Toward the Light
It’s Us Against a Particle of Dust
A Future Without Him, Aided by Duct Tape
When Mothers Bully Back
From He to She in First Grade
Just Don’t Call Me Mom
Bringing a Daughter Back From the Brink With Poems
Please Forgive My Spotless Home
Agreeing to Accept and Move On
Clinging to Each Other, We Survived the Storm
Coming Out as a Modern Family
After a Parent’s Death, a Rush of Change
Recalling Painful Lessons in Forgiveness
Chained to the Hearth or Warmed by It?
Just Holding on Through the Curves
Untying a Birth Mother’s Hands
Devoted but Dateless
What Might Have Been
Eating the Forbidden Ham Sandwich
Sharing the Shame After My Arrest
A String of Bulbs Was Our Guiding Star
Across the Threshold of Fatherhood
Could I Forgive Him One Last Time?
That Delicate Membrane, the Heart
For the Boy Who Makes Waves
My Secret Left Me Unable to Help
A Time to Put Aside the Armor
Raising a Princess Single-Handedly
Good Practice for a Tough Fatherhood
Swapping Fathers, Swiftly
The Tiny Hand That Robs the Cradle

Parking

The Hunter-Gatherer, Parking Division

Parkinson's Disease

Need to Find Me? Ask My Ham Man
Finding Equilibrium in Seesawing Libidos

Pascal, Molly

How the ‘Dining Dead’ Got Talking Again

Passover

‘The Dumbest Fight I’ve Ever Been In’

Patel, Amisha K

The Heart Said Yes; the Horoscope Said No

Performance Art

Death Bear Will See You Now

Personal Finances

When Bliss Is a Mutual Fund

Pets

Your 13-Word Love Stories
Opening the Heart’s Floodgates, With a Paw
An Affection Multiplier, With Four Feet and Wet Nose

Photography

Cropped Out of My Own Fantasy

Pies

She Lost Her Acrylic Nail in a Pie

Pilots

How I Earned My Wings Back
Live Without Me. I’ll Understand.

Pizza

Finding God in a Hot Slice of Pizza

Pneumonia

Tunneling to the Core of Family

Podcasts

Jason Alexander Reads ‘The Hunter-Gatherer, Parking Division’
Sarah Shahi Reads ‘In My Mother, a Fear Stripped Bare’
Kim Dickens Reads ‘A Measure of Desire’
Rachel Weisz Reads ‘When Eve and Eve Bit the Apple’
Abbi Jacobson Reads ‘Boy, What a Fabulous Baker’
Judd Apatow Reads ‘At the Hospital, an Interlude of Clarity’

Poetry And Poets

‘The Twin Bed We Were Forced to Share’
Bringing a Daughter Back From the Brink With Poems
Playing Role Reversal With My Therapist

Poker (Card Game)

Please Take My Son’s Wallet

Police

‘You Need to Take My Son to Jail’

Poliomyelitis

Would My Heart Outrun Its Pursuer?
Would My Heart Outrun Its Pursuer?

Political Prisoners

Reaching Out Between the Bars

Polygamy

A Wallet-Size Photo, a Father’s Double Life

Popcorn

‘From Romantic Tragedy to Romantic Comedy’

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen

‘We Were Never Going to Venmo the Same $15 Again’

Pornography

What Boxing Taught Me About Love
For Kayden Kross, the Family Business Happens to Be Porn
Seeing the World Through My Wife’s Eyes

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

One Thousand and One Nights of Laundry

Poston, Hannah Louise

How a Kitten Eased My Partner’s Depression

Prayers And Prayer Books

A Forgotten Prayer, Answered
A Support Group Is My Higher Power
When You Wish Upon a Saint, Watch What You Ask For

Pregnancy And Childbirth

I Met My Husband on the Maternity Ward
‘Sometimes a Romantic Plan Isn’t Enough’
‘No Dates, No Love, No Hope?’
Wishing the World Could Be More Soft
When Even a Toddler Can Tell You Don’t Belong
17 Million Frozen Sperm Await the Perfect Moment
My Biological Clock Can’t Tick Fast Enough
The Internet Thinks I’m Still Pregnant
A Path to Fatherhood, With (Shared) Morning Sickness
It Was in Giving That They Received
We Didn’t Have a Plan, but the Baby Did
His Promise Would Not Be Denied
After a Parent’s Death, a Rush of Change
A Child of Two Worlds

Pregnancy And Obstetrics

The Tangle of Biology and Choice
Have That Baby, Dear. I’ll Just Watch.
The Sea Horse, Our Family Mascot
My First Son, a Pure Memory
My First Son, a Pure Memory
The Blank Space in Our Family Album
My Triplets Were Inseparable, Whatever the Risks
In the Grip of Nature’s Own Form of Birth Control
Two Men, Baby on the Way and Me
MODERN LOVE

Premature Babies

Superheroes, Just for Each Other
We Didn’t Have a Plan, but the Baby Did

Prescott (Ariz)

I Would Have Driven Her Anywhere

Presidential Election Of 2012

Sleeping With the (Political) Enemy

Presidential Election Of 2016

When Trump vs. Clinton Becomes a Family Affair

Priests

Love Calls, and So Does the Priesthood

Probation And Parole

I Fell for a Man Who Wore an Electronic Ankle Bracelet

Proms

He’s Playing Our Song

Psychics And Fortune Tellers

He’s Your Destiny. Just Be Patient.
A Year In, and Still Trying to Say the ‘L’ Word

Psychology And Psychologists

He Married a Sociopath: Me
Try the 36 Questions on the Way to Love
To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This
The 36 Questions That Lead to Love
The 36 Questions That Lead to Love
Transference? I’ll Take It
Playing Role Reversal With My Therapist

Pumpkins

‘That Poor Pumpkin Needs Someone to Love It’

Qi, Jenny

A Heart Filled With Love, Not Stuff

Quarantine (Life And Culture)

Please Go Shelter in Another Place
My Unlikely Pandemic Dream Partner
Lockdown Was Our Breaking Point
He Seduced Me With Bread
The Pandemic Arrived. His Text Back Did Not.
How I Got Caught Up in a Global Romance Scam
‘We Met, and Then the City Shut Down’

Quarantines

‘A Tipsy, Celebratory State of Bliss’
Together.
Why Are All the Exes Texting?
When It’s Either Your Ex, or Nobody, for Months
‘In Her World, There’s No Pandemic Outside’
Widow Walks Into Wall, Finds Hope

Queens (Nyc)

‘My Mother Has Been a Nanny for Six Families’

Retail Stores And Trade

In the Dressing Room, Relationships Laid Bare

Rodeos

Rancho Paradise Lost
Rancho Paradise Lost

Russia

Online Images Open a Heart, Then a Home
Online Images Open a Heart, Then a Home

Rabbis

What the Rabbi Said
Keeping Them Company at the End
An Ancient Coda to My 21st-Century Divorce

Rabbits

Keeping This Fluffy, Fragile Beast Alive

Race And Ethnicity

‘My Parents Never Called’
Trying to Feel Love-Worthy (While Working for a Dating App)
Firefighter Chases Woman Down Street
When a Dating Dare Leads to Months of Soul Searching
With the Birth of My Son, I Stopped Hiding
I Broke Up With Her Because She’s White
Love to Love You, Baby
Who’s Allowed to Hold Hands?
Confronting Race, Religion and Her Heart
Navigating New Trenches After a Breakup
To Keep but Not Be Kept
Bringing Home the Wrong Race
Down to ‘The Wire’
Race Wasn’t an Issue to Him, Which Was an Issue to Me
Race Wasn’t an Issue to Him, Which Was an Issue to Me

Real Estate And Housing (Residential)

Staying Together by Living Apart (in a Duplex)
A Generous (and Unwanted) Gift
The Wisdom of the Moving Man

Reality Television

Marooned on ‘Love Island’
Competing in My Own Reality Show

Reang, Putsata

At Sea, and Seeking a Safe Harbor

Recreational Vehicles

A Diesel Engine Woke Up Our Marriage

Referendums

A Father, a Son and a Fighting Chance

Refugees And Displaced Persons

‘Happiness Is Incomplete’: A Refugee Couple’s Scattered Lives
From Syria, With Love
Grappling With the Language of Love

Religion And Belief

‘Our Families Couldn’t Know’
Is God Just Not That Into Me?

Religion And Churches

A Support Group Is My Higher Power
When You Wish Upon a Saint, Watch What You Ask For
When You Wish Upon a Saint, Watch What You Ask For

Religious Cults

A Leap of Faith

Renting And Leasing

Neighbor Bro Smashes My Romantic Fantasy
The Kisses That Paid My Rent
Live Without Me. I’ll Understand.

Renting And Leasing (Real Estate)

Neighbor Bro Smashes My Romantic Fantasy
The Kisses That Paid My Rent

Rich, Jameson

The Shirt Stays On

Riggs, Nina

When a Couch Is More Than a Couch

Rinaldi, Karen

What Is a Man For?

Robbins, Emily

Grappling With the Language of Love

Roman Catholic Church

On My Wedding Day, Wishing I Looked Like Someone Else
Race Wasn’t an Issue to Him, Which Was an Issue to Me
Mom, Dad, Let Me Find My Own Husband

Roommates

A Family Fairy Tale, Twice Told

Ross, Max

A Field Guide to Male Intimacy

Running

Mary Chapin Carpenter Reads ‘The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap’
Race Wasn’t an Issue to Him, Which Was an Issue to Me

Ryan, Meg

‘You Need to Take My Son to Jail’

Saint Rita

When You Wish Upon a Saint, Watch What You Ask For

Sex

What I Learned From My Instagram Crush
Will They See Me as a Son, a Daughter or a Stranger?
‘We Found Our Groove in Splitting Up’
‘How Do You Think I Got Thighs Like These?’
‘I Worried About Telling Him My Age’
Two Open Marriages in One Small Room
It Wasn’t Me He Wanted
‘I Couldn’t Breathe — or Cancel’
New Hope, New Pain, Same Old Divorce
The House Where My Husband Doesn’t Exist
The Tallest Man I Ever Loved
At What Age Is Love Enthralling? 82
My Relationship Guru Is a 14-Year-Old Girl
We Asked for Epic Love in 100 Words. 3,000 Responded.
Talking to My Fiancé About My New Girlfriend
Neighbor Bro Smashes My Romantic Fantasy
What Boxing Taught Me About Love
When Neither Male Nor Female Seems to Fit
Flying Close to Temptation
What Sleeping With Married Men Taught Me About Infidelity
For a 30-Year-Old Virgin, It’s Now or Never
First Try the Pastrami, Then the Polyamory
Am I Gay or Straight? Maybe This Fun Quiz Will Tell Me
How ‘Lolita’ Freed Me From My Own Humbert
For Best Hookup Results, Use Your Words, O.K.?
Mom: ‘Is He Jewish?’ Me: ‘No.’ Mom: ‘Is He Smart?’
Who’s Allowed to Hold Hands?
During a Night of Casual Sex, Urgent Messages Go Unanswered
Not Friends? Then No Benefits
White Shirt, Black Name Tag, Big Secret
The Physics of Forbidden Love
After 264 Haircuts, a Marriage Ends
Confronting Race, Religion and Her Heart
Catfishing Strangers to Find Myself
When Eve and Eve Bit the Apple
When Eve and Eve Bit the Apple
Dear Dad: We’ve Been Gay for a Really Long Time
From He to She in First Grade
At Sea, and Seeking a Safe Harbor
All Twisted Up by Gender Bending
It’s Been a Long Time Coming
On Tinder, Off Sex
On Tinder, Off Sex
Asexual and Happy
After a First Time, Many Second Thoughts
Learning to Embrace Sexuality’s Gray Areas
Finding Equilibrium in Seesawing Libidos
I Will Be Your Mother Figure
It Was in Giving That They Received
In a Small Bag, She Packed All Our Hopes
Let’s Not Pretend to Be Who We Aren’t
Healing Sought (Bring Your Own Magic)
A Pact to Make the Heart Grow Fonder?
A Choice Not as Easy as It Looked
Losing a ‘Boyfriend,’ the Best Way Possible
From Humiliation to Appreciation
Labels of Married Life, in a New Light
Three Mothers, One Bond
A Role I Was Born to Play
Finding the Courage to Reveal a Fetish
Newly Wed and Quickly Unraveling
A Measure of Desire
A Father, a Son and a Fighting Chance
A Hiker’s Guide to Healing
A Twist of Fate
My Husband Is Now My Wife
My Husband Is Now My Wife
Ring-Finger Follies
Stuck at the Border Between the Sexes
Eating the Forbidden Ham Sandwich
Perfect, With Childbearing Hips
Single, Female, Mormon, Alone
Sex on the Run? No, We Parked
The Anatomy of a Breakup
Mom/Not Mom/Aunt
Once Political, Now Just Practical
Yes, We Do. Even at Our Age.
‘Maddy’ Just Might Work After All
‘Maddy’ Just Might Work After All
A Guest Star in His Romantic Drama
Facing My Obsession, in the Flesh
Deeply, Truly (but Not Physically) in Love
Sexy Ribbon on the Buyout Package
The Sea Horse, Our Family Mascot
We’ll Marry Each Other as Often as Needed
A Brother as Significant as Any Other
The Joy of Marriage Was Ours, for a While
The Man I Wish Was Your Father
My Virginity Went From Choice to Burden
An Ancient Coda to My 21st-Century Divorce
If We Met in a Former Life, Maybe He Was Straight Then
I Fell for a Man Who Wore an Electronic Ankle Bracelet
Close Enough for Momma, Too Close for Me
Fatherly Memories Scattered to the Wind
Mortality Can Be a Powerful Aphrodisiac
Mortality Can Be a Powerful Aphrodisiac
Married, but Certainly Not to Tradition
Married, but Certainly Not to Tradition
A Reality Show for Couples Therapy? Sign Us Up
A Reality Show for Couples Therapy? Sign Us Up
You're Not Sick, You're Just In Love
You're Not Sick, You're Just in Love
A Passion for the Movies? Yes, Yes Yes!
A Passion for the Movies? Yes, Yes ... Yes!
A Prince Charming for the Prom (Not Ever After, Though)
Back From the Front, With Honor, a Warrior's Truth
The Patriots Made a Man of Me, in a Manner of Speaking
Jill and Jill Live on the Hill, but One Must Boil the Water

Sperm Banks

Looking for Love at the Sperm Bank

Storage

Mélange à Trois: Me, Him and the Stuff
Mélange à Trois: Me, Him ... and the Stuff

Striptease

A Reality Show for Couples Therapy? Sign Us Up
A Reality Show for Couples Therapy? Sign Us Up

Salsa Dancing

Taking a Step Forward

San Francisco (Calif)

‘She Was Too Cool to Wear a Costume’
Staying Together by Living Apart (in a Duplex)

Santa Claus

One Reason Not to Believe in Santa Claus

Saturn Division Of General Motors Corp

‘You Need to Take My Son to Jail’

Scabies

Wearing Your Heart on Your Skin

Schizophrenia

‘You Need to Take My Son to Jail’

Scrabble (Game)

He Showed Me His Tiles, So I Showed Him Mine
Words With (I Wish We Were More Than) Friends

Scrimgeour, Andrew D

One Reason Not to Believe in Santa Claus

Seattle (Wash)

First I Met My Children, Then My Girlfriend. They’re Related.
In the New Year, More Cuddling
‘You Need to Take My Son to Jail’

Selinger, Hannah

Friends Without Benefits

Senses And Sensation

The Kisses That Paid My Rent

September 11 (2001)

Love Forged by the Threat of Deportation

Serbia

Taking Marriage Class at Guantánamo

Service Dogs And Other Animals

After Losing My Sight, Struggling to Be Seen
‘In the Summer, We Sleep Naked’

Sex Crimes

What Boxing Taught Me About Love
How ‘Lolita’ Freed Me From My Own Humbert
Healing Sought (Bring Your Own Magic)
A Hiker’s Guide to Healing
I Fell for a Man Who Wore an Electronic Ankle Bracelet

Sex Education

At What Age Is Love Enthralling? 82

Shanghai (China)

A Leap of Faith

Shifrin, Marina

A Life Plan for Two, Followed by One

Ships And Shipping

‘Crushes Thrive in Small Spaces’

Shoes And Boots

Seeing the World Through My Wife’s Eyes

Shoplifting

‘You Need to Take My Son to Jail’

Sidewalks

It Took a Villain to Save Our Marriage

Sign Language

Mothering While Deaf in a Newly Quiet World

Silver Linings Playbook (Movie)

Making a Hard Choice for a Soft Landing

Single Mothers

A Single Mom Escapes the Friend Zone, One Non-Date at a Time
For a Single Mother, an Alternate Reality
When the Doorman Is Your Main Man
When the Doorman Is Your Main Man
Just the Two of Us, When One Toddles

Skinner, Delacey

All Twisted Up by Gender Bending

Skype Technologies

Even in Real Life, There Were Screens Between Us

Smell

Seeing the World Through My Wife’s Eyes

Smith, Jochebed

Swearing Off the Modern Man

Smoking And Tobacco

Stand by Your (Marlboro) Man

Snakes

A Twist of Fate

Snow And Snowstorms

He Asked Permission to Touch, but Not to Ghost
In Marriage, Beware of Big Boxes

Social Media

A New Year’s Instagram Flirtation
When Sturdy Love Is What You Need
We Asked for Epic Love in 100 Words. 3,000 Responded.
Pudge Will Keep Us Together
My So-Called (Instagram) Life
Cropped Out of My Own Fantasy
A Culture Gap the Size of an Ocean, Bridged by Facebook
Swearing Off the Modern Man

Sociology

Truly, Madly, Guiltily

Somaliland

A Child of Two Worlds

South Korea

What I Learned From My Instagram Crush
Overfed on a Mother’s Affection

Sperm

‘The Chart Said “Break up,” So We Did’
First I Met My Children, Then My Girlfriend. They’re Related.
Looking for Love at the Sperm Bank

Spinal Muscular Atrophy

How 30 Blocks Became 30 Years

Spokane (Wash)

Pudge Will Keep Us Together

Spotify

Talking to My Fiancé About My New Girlfriend

Stalking (Crime)

My Very Own Cyberstalker
I Couldn’t Let Go of Him. Did It Make Me a Stalker?

Stillbirth

Wishing the World Could Be More Soft
My First Son, a Pure Memory
My First Son, a Pure Memory

Studio 54

Love to Love You, Baby

Suburbs

I Saw a Playhouse, My Daughter Saw a Jail

Suicides And Suicide Attempts

A Tattoo for the Living
After a Suicide, a Security Guard for the Heart
Bringing a Daughter Back From the Brink With Poems
My Marriage: A Course in Desert Survival
Out of the Darkness
Strung Out on Love and Checked In for Treatment
Strung Out on Love and Checked In for Treatment

Summer (Season)

Marooned on ‘Love Island’

Sunlight

‘I Couldn’t Ignore What That Silence Told Me’

Super Bowl

The Patriots Made a Man of Me, in a Manner of Speaking

Supermarkets And Grocery Stores

‘The Dumbest Fight I’ve Ever Been In’

Surfing

Live Without Me. I’ll Understand.

Surgery And Surgeons

The Shirt Stays On
What Luck Means Now

Surrogate Motherhood

Mom/Not Mom/Aunt

Sushi

Seeing the World Through My Wife’s Eyes
My Dinners With Andrew

Suspensions, Dismissals And Resignations

How Could I Tell Him What I Knew? How Could I Not?

Sweden

‘No Dates, No Love, No Hope?’

Sydney (Australia)

Australia Edition

Syria

A Dose of Empathy From My Syrian Doctor
From Syria, With Love
Grappling With the Language of Love

Television

‘We Met During a Bomb Threat’
Marooned on ‘Love Island’
What Clown Wrote This Script?
Competing in My Own Reality Show
A Reality Show for Couples Therapy? Sign Us Up
A Reality Show for Couples Therapy? Sign Us Up

Texas

Rancho Paradise Lost
Rancho Paradise Lost

Taj Mahal

How I Lost the Fiancé but Won the Honeymoon

Tattoos

In Defense of My Emu Tattoo
A Tattoo for the Living
When a Former Life Beckons
The Breakups That Got Under My Skin
His Art Is His Joy. It Just Didn't Fit My Plan.

Teenagers And Adolescence

My Relationship Guru Is a 14-Year-Old Girl
Just Holding on Through the Curves

Telephones And Telecommunications

Someone to Watch Over Me (on a Google Map)

Tennis

Please Take My Son’s Wallet
Rallying to Keep the Game Alive

Tenure

Is the Husband Going to Be a Problem?

Terrorism

Dust to Dust: An Affair Post 9/11

Testicles

Pushed Into the Future When Illness Strikes (in an Unlikely Place)

Tests And Examinations

Want Lasting Love? First, Take This Test

Text Messaging

‘My Parents Never Called’
‘You Find Yourself Lying Once Again in His Bed’
‘Our Best Selves, Even If It’s Too Late’
Destined to Marry the Cute Bartender
Love Means Never Having to Say … Anything
Wanting Monogamy as 1,946 Men Await My Swipe
To Text or Not to Text: A Dating Conundrum
The Five Stages of Ghosting Grief
Swearing Off the Modern Man
What Is Carved in Stone
A Dream Deferred
Just Friends? Let Me Read Between the Lines

Thailand

A World Away, a Wish Answered
A Dream Deferred

Thanksgiving Day

A Simple Question That’s Too Hard to Answer
She Lost Her Acrylic Nail in a Pie

Theater

The Tallest Man I Ever Loved

Threats And Threatening Messages

Live Without Me. I’ll Understand.

Time

She Was My World, but We Couldn’t Marry
Judd Apatow Reads ‘At the Hospital, an Interlude of Clarity’

Tinder (Mobile App)

On Tinder, Off Sex
On Tinder, Off Sex
Swiping Right on Tinder, but Staying Put

Tokyo (Japan)

‘You Feel Good. Is This Good?’
The Kisses That Paid My Rent

Tombs And Tombstones

When I Was Left to Speak for Both of Us

Toutonghi, Pauls

Learning Humanity From Dogs

Traffic Accidents And Safety

When Sturdy Love Is What You Need
Please Take My Son’s Wallet
The Accident No One Talked About
Another Voice Had Come Between Us
Looking for Signs That It’s Meant to Be

Transgender And Transsexual

Will They See Me as a Son, a Daughter or a Stranger?
‘How Do You Think I Got Thighs Like These?’
‘I Couldn’t Breathe — or Cancel’
When Neither Male Nor Female Seems to Fit
The Physics of Forbidden Love
From He to She in First Grade
All Twisted Up by Gender Bending
From Humiliation to Appreciation
My Husband Is Now My Wife
My Husband Is Now My Wife
Stuck at the Border Between the Sexes
The Anatomy of a Breakup
‘Maddy’ Just Might Work After All
‘Maddy’ Just Might Work After All
The Sea Horse, Our Family Mascot

Transgender And Transsexuals

Will They See Me as a Son, a Daughter or a Stranger?
‘How Do You Think I Got Thighs Like These?’
‘I Couldn’t Breathe — or Cancel’
When Neither Male Nor Female Seems to Fit
The Physics of Forbidden Love
From He to She in First Grade
All Twisted Up by Gender Bending

Transit Systems

Me? I'm Just Fine (Whimper). Really (Sob).

Transplants

I Had to Do It Without Telling My Beloved
When Love Isn’t as Simple as Standing by Your Man
My Illness, the Third Partner in Our Relationship

Traumatic Brain Injury

Are You My Husband?

Travel And Vacations

‘Humility Is What Drew Me to Him’
How I Lost the Fiancé but Won the Honeymoon
The 12-Hour Goodbye That Started Everything
A Husband for Home; a Wife for Away
In a Balm of Space and Time, Healing
Before the Web, Hearts Grew Silent
Romance, the Quirky Souvenir
Welcomed With Open Arms in Mumbai
A World Away, a Wish Answered
A Place to Lay My Heart
A Diesel Engine Woke Up Our Marriage
Live Without Me. I’ll Understand.
Losing My Way Has Been a Way of Life for Me
Losing My Way Has Been a Way of Life for Me

Turtles And Tortoises

My Touchstone and a Heart of Gold

Twins

‘No Dates, No Love, No Hope?’

Tylenol (Drug)

Can Tylenol Help Heal a Broken Heart?

Ussr (Former Soviet Union)

Breaking Free From the Nesting Doll

Uber Technologies Inc

When Your Uber Driver Brings a Time Machine

Uganda

‘It Soothes Me to Know Someone So Gentle’

Ultimate Frisbee

‘We Met, and Then the City Shut Down’

Unification Church

A Leap of Faith

United States Defense And Military Forces

Pushed Together for 48 Days, Then Pulled Apart for 49
Changing Two Lives, Then the World
A Surrender to War, After an Uneasy Peace
Romance’s New Format
The Quiet Side of Being a Soldier’s Other Half
Marry a Man Who Loves His Mother
A Brief Visit From My Soldier Son

United States International Relations

Diary of a Soldier's Wife: Tie-Dye and Camo Don't Mix

University Of Wisconsin

Please Take My Son’s Wallet

Urbani, Ellen

A Flower Delivery That Brought More Pain Than Pleasure

Uterus

My Biological Clock Can’t Tick Fast Enough

Valentine's Day

The Gift Was as Flimsy as My Rationale
GPS on a Path to the Heart
Explaining the Irrational: Here Goes ...
Dear Editor, the Secret of Love Is ...
The Day the House Blew Up
The Day the House Blew Up

Vancouver (British Columbia)

I Was Done Dating. Then I Joined a Hookup App.

Vandalism

The Tiny Hand That Robs the Cradle

Venmo

‘We Were Never Going to Venmo the Same $15 Again’

Vermont

‘She Was Too Cool to Wear a Costume’

Veterans

The Quiet Side of Being a Soldier’s Other Half

Wbur

Judd Apatow Reads ‘At the Hospital, an Interlude of Clarity’

Writing And Writers

After Losing My Sight, Struggling to Be Seen
An Empty Heart Is One That Can Be Filled
Learning to Silence My Inner Editor
A Place to Lay My Heart
Would Hemingway Cry?
My View From the Margins
My Very Own Cyberstalker
The Semicolon Was Our Blinking Caution Light
The Semicolon Was Our Blinking Caution Light
A Reality Show for Couples Therapy? Sign Us Up
A Reality Show for Couples Therapy? Sign Us Up
Something Like Motherhood
Cubicle Cupid: Nothing Personal
Traveling the Too-Much-Information Highway
Traveling the Too-Much-Information Highway

Wales

You Have to Let Go to Move On

Walking

‘You Need to Take My Son to Jail’

Waste Materials And Disposal

The Junk Removers Manhandle My Heart

Watches And Clocks

She Was My World, but We Couldn’t Marry

Webster, Davis

Swiping Right on Tinder, but Staying Put

Weight

The Unhealthy Math of Skinny + Pretty = Good
What a Scale Can’t Measure
Our Bodies, Our Imaginations

Weisz, Rachel

Rachel Weisz Reads ‘When Eve and Eve Bit the Apple’

When Harry Met Sally (Movie)

When Love Seems Too Easy to Trust

Whites

I Broke Up With Her Because She’s White

Widows And Widowers

‘You Should Break Up With Me’
‘It’s OK if You Meet Someone’
The End of the Long-Distance Marriage
Widow Walks Into Wall, Finds Hope
Watching Them Watching Me
How We Got From Grief to Pancakes
Dust to Dust: An Affair Post 9/11

Wills And Estates

What Wasn’t Passed On

Wines

Need to Find Me? Ask My Ham Man
When the Toast Is: ‘To Your Health’

Woo, Sung J

Overfed on a Mother’s Affection

World Trade Center (Manhattan, Ny)

Love Forged by the Threat of Deportation

World Trade Center (Nyc)

Passage to India, by Way of an Elevator
Dust to Dust: An Affair Post 9/11
Dust to Dust: An Affair Post 9/11

Yale University

So Handsome, So Clever, So Gone

Yonker, Kera

No One to Rescue Me From My Drinking

Youth

Love to Love You, Baby
Maternal Wisdom (5 Pounds’ Worth)
Tunneling to the Core of Family
Across the Threshold of Fatherhood
The Triangle’s Sharpest Point
Open Adoption: Not So Simple Math
Could I Forgive Him One Last Time?
To Nurture Again, With Courage
For the Boy Who Makes Waves
Dear Birth Mother, Please Hit ‘Reply’
A Time to Put Aside the Armor
Raising a Princess Single-Handedly
In My Mother, a Fear Stripped Bare
The Tiny Hand That Robs the Cradle
Disassembling My Childhood
When One of Me Suddenly Became Three
The Man I Wish Was Your Father
How I Turned Into a Stepmonster
A Father on Poster Board Just Won’t Do
I Saw a Playhouse, My Daughter Saw a Jail
Who Is This Child? And What Will He Be Next?
Live Without Me. I’ll Understand.
Will That Child Step Off the Screen and Into Our Lives?
Will That Child Step Off the Screen and Into Our Lives?
Fatherhood, I Now Learn, Is a Young Man’s Game
A Winter of Discontent, Then Along Comes Baby
Figure It Out? Figure It Out? O.K., You Figure It Out!
Figure It Out? Figure It Out? O.K., You Figure It Out!
Father and Daughter: One Final Connection
Father and Daughter: One Final Connection
Online Images Open a Heart, Then a Home
Online Images Open a Heart, Then a Home
Mother Must Muzzle the Nuzzle
Mother Must Muzzle the Nuzzle
Sending a Lost Boy to the Wilderness to Find Himself
Sending a Lost Boy to the Wilderness to Find Himself
Adolescence, Without a Roadmap
Something Like Motherhood
MODERN LOVE

Zoos

Shedding Skins at the Zoo

Eharmony.Com

It’s Not Just a Mouse That Has to Click

Your Feed Health

Preparing My Family for Life Without Me
I Had to Do It Without Telling My Beloved

Your Feed Immigration

Going Back to China in Search of My Daughter’s Secret Past

Your Feed Science

I Had to Do It Without Telling My Beloved

Your Feed Selfcare

He Seduced Me With Bread