Modern Love: A Power Outage Made Us Possible

March 6, 2026, 1:01 p.m. Eastern time

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Brian Rea

A Power Outage Made Us Possible

If he couldn’t see me or my place, maybe he wouldn’t judge me either.

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Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Brought Only Sex and Chaos’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.

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Lindy West Thought She Couldn’t Handle Polyamory. She Was Wrong.

The writer reluctantly agreed to a non-monogamous marriage, but the way she felt about her husband’s new girlfriend completely surprised her.

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How ‘Heated Rivalry’ Thawed the Chill Between My Father and Me

A racy show about a romance between male hockey players was not an obvious candidate for me to bond with my 89-year-old father.

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