Miya Lee

“It took me far too long to learn this stuff. They understood it so much sooner.”

“I couldn’t bear the idea that we were the ‘fat couple’ among our friends.”

The poet Maggie Smith explains why she will never be financially dependent on a romantic partner again.

The Modern Love column presents a special collection of essays and reader stories exploring how finances complicate relationships.

The Love Letter newsletter is coming to an end, but you will still receive Modern Love and wedding stories in your inbox.

To celebrate the column’s 20th anniversary, we’re asking readers to share their favorite lines of wisdom from Modern Love essays and Tiny Love Stories.

We asked essayists to write a letter to the person they were when they published their Modern Love essay. Here’s what they shared.

Selected quotes from 20 Years of Modern Love.

For 20 years, Modern Love has recorded people’s lives. The column has also had real-life reverberations on readers.

To celebrate the Modern Love column’s 20th anniversary this month, we put together a special package of articles exploring the column’s history and impact.