'Even for two musicians, sound wasn’t enough. Eventually, the distance just became too much.'

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'If the Harlem Renaissance had a birthplace, this party was it.'

Brilliant writing by Veronica Chambers !

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Beautiful, instructive Modern Love episode with three powerful lessons about love from my wise boss and Modern Love founder, Daniel Jones !

How did your relationship go from “hey” to heartfelt? Whether on dating apps, over text or in direct messages on social media, we want to see the messages that started it all — and hear about what happened next.

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What were some of the first online words you exchanged with the person you’re in a relationship with? Send us screenshots :)

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'Widowed and living alone, Mom couldn’t place the song and had forgotten it was Valentine’s Day. Dinner dishes sat in the sink. News blared from the T.V. He sang into the second stanza before she remembered....' nytimes.com/2024/02/13/sty…

It's Black History Month so that means you have to:

1. Tell me how great you think I am and that you love me
2. Buy my book (if you already have, thank you!) for yourself or someone else newly laid off in your life: amazon.com/Seen-Heard-Pai…

I don't make the rules get to it

I’m thrilled to have my Tiny Love Story on love and decluttering in The New York Times! Writing an essay in 100 words or less was challenging, but it was a fun challenge. Thanks to editor Miya Lee for being great to work with! nytimes.com/2024/01/30/sty…

'On a Cape Cod beach last January, I braced for my daily cold water plunge. 'Can I join you?' asked a stranger. I hesitated. But her red hair and wide smile reminded me of my younger self.'

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Check out these delightful winning stories from the NYT's teen Tiny Memoir contest: nytimes.com/2024/01/17/lea…

'After we met in college, he gave me my first bouquet. I plucked flowers from his gift (and the college grounds) to create my own bouquet for him. 'You don’t rebundle a gift,' he said. 'Why waste money?' I countered.'

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I' was going to Seoul to work on a book project. My Airbnb had enough room for us all.

So when my parents brought it up as a half-joke that they would come, too, I didn’t think it was unreasonable.

Until the trip neared, that is.'

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'Both men insisted that everything was aboveboard, open and non-possessive. Still, I worried: What would our friend’s girlfriend say about our ménage à trois?' nytimes.com/2024/01/02/sty…

'This is called 'grayspeak' or 'elderspeak,' a shift in the way we address elders that treats them less like sages and more like toddlers or pets.

We say things like, 'Today was rainy. Did you see the rain?' and 'Was your dinner yummy?''

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Really fun to see one of my favorite columns give a package on MONEY & LOVE. (Thanks Miya Lee!)

The one that really got me was this one. I had this moment before meeting my husband, and it's shaped the very nature of my marriage for the better.

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Today, Dan Saltzstein Daniel Jones Veronica Chambers Marcelle Hopkins and I published a package on MONEY & LOVE! Many thanks to the writers who opened up about an often taboo subject.

Check out David Yoon's moving essay, 'How I Learned to Spend Money on Love':

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'If those shelves could talk, they would voice the unspoken question between us: Why put something up, only to take it down?'

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'When we lost our apartment, my job and your nest egg in the 2008 recession, you suggested we move into your van and drive south to stretch the paycheck you earned online. It was just you, me and our dog.

Then I got pregnant in Peru...'

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'Octobers ago, I crossed a psychic’s door. She examined me, one gray eye roaming.

'Don’t marry your boyfriend,' she said.

'I don’t have one,' I bluffed. Both of her eyes focused on me: 'You do.''

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'Where did he end and I begin?

Enmeshment was surrender, blissful submission to another’s pulse, ego death in the most erotic of ways.

There was something spiritual about those days before limerence wore off.'

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