I had planned to write a swashbuckling adventure of demigods defeating villains against-all-odds, but I have never defeated a villain. I have only loved and been loved and lost love. The simple version of why I wrote this story is in the attempt to get over a boy.
Read MoreWe do owe people things, and we cannot build any kind of community or resistance without owing.
Read MoreI want to believe that love finds us in the middle as well. Love finds us in the mess, in the muddy spring days, rainy nights, 3am departures as my bedroom door swings shut with the heartbreaking sound of finality.
Read MoreThe Summer I Turned Pretty affirms Laurel and Susanna’s capacity as responsible, loving mothers simultaneously with them having impulsive, carefree fun. It made me believe that life doesn’t end after having kids.
Read MoreI needed to know that falling in love takes no prerequisites—that it can be fleeting, nurturing, anchored in a lake at sunset or a glance across the table over hot pot—no less valid or life-changing, regardless of the form it takes.
Read MoreTraditional love languages disappoint us, but we are immigrants. Again and again, I witnessed the ways we are adept at starting anew, lives from scratch, snippets cobbled together like a lullaby.
Read MoreI learned to love in the language of food, but the consequences of that ran deep.
Read MoreWe have all lost so much so suddenly, and I have to believe that it's okay to put meaning-making aside, for as long as each of us needs.
Read MoreThis film gave me permission to feel worthy exactly as I am.
Read MoreThere will be times when you look at your partner and go “eh.”
Read MoreI quickly realized how superficial my old checklist had been, not only because humans can't be reduced to a few traits and interests but also because those are far from the most important factors in making a relationship work.
Read More“There is no right person. There is simply someone you love, someone you have chosen, whom you will have to choose again.”
Read MoreThe struggles of teenagers may indeed be trivial in retrospect, but they certainly do not feel that way in the moment.
Read MoreThe majority of her songs, even her old ones, show a lot of perspective, and they taught me a great deal about navigating the confusion that is love.
Read MoreBecause every story ends right when the couple gets together, we almost never get to see what a good relationship looks like.
Read MoreLast month, Mandy Len Catron wrote a Modern Love essay about how she found love by replicating a 20-year-old experiment that involved two strangers asking each other 36 increasingly personal questions.
Read MoreAnyone who's been online in the past few weeks has surely heard about the famous 36 questions that will supposedly make strangers fall in love in less than two hours.
Read MoreThere is so much to be learned and admired in the dynamics of functional couples who are idealized and immortalized on paper or on the big screen -- regardless of whether or not they actually exist.
Read MoreWhether it's inbetween classes or on the commute home, U of T students find different ways to make romantic connections across campus.
Read MorePassion, while important throughout, is overrated.
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