For their first date five years ago, Ben Lee took Kerrie Knox for a ride in his 1947 Beechcraft B35 Bonanza, flying in and out of a tiny airstrip near where she was living in Cleveland, Tenn. “One of the first things I noticed about Kerrie was just the excitement.” he said. “There was no…
A postgraduate summer fling with Jurema Gobena, in New Haven, Conn., in 2016, just wasn’t enough for Enyi Okebugwu. “The final conversation we had before leaving was, ‘This is a natural end, this is great,’” said Mr. Okebugwu, 30. But, he said, “It did not feel good at all. On my end, I thought, let…
“It feels good,” the actor Penn Badgley said on a recent Friday morning, in an echoing studio at the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn. “I’m clumsy as hell. But it feels good.” Mr. Badgley, 34, who played lonely boy Dan on the original “Gossip Girl” and now stars on the Netflix thriller “You,” hadn’t…
When Meghan Louttit first contacted Joseph Iervolino on the dating app OkCupid in November 2015, he was sitting in a plane on a tarmac at Newark airport, bound for Thailand. Ms. Louttit was impressed. “I thought to myself, ‘Wow, here’s someone with a nice smile who likes to travel and seems very adventurous,’” she said.…
Drs. Kate Carlisle Stoeckle and Jeffrey Russell Arace broke the rules when they first met. Their meeting took place in 2013 in a neuroscience lab at the Rockefeller University, where they were working as research assistants. “We walked in on the first day and someone was taking me around the lab to meet everyone,” Dr.…
Jamie Antoinette Cooke and Dr. Joshua Ryan Zeiger figured they had been to at least 20 of the same social events while at Georgetown, starting with a welcome party in their freshman year. “We knew each other from afar,” said Dr. Zeiger, 31, who was reintroduced to her in June 2014, two years after they…
Eva Maria Theresa Janerus, recently divorced, sought the help of a matchmaker in June 2019 to prepare her for the rigors of a return to the dating game. In an effort to get Ms. Janerus going, her matchmaker prescribed a whopping “50 throwaway dates,” leaving room for plenty to go wrong in a search for…
Indiana Touchette has inspired many songs for indie country singer Alexandra Kay. Her music has paid homage to their relationship, served as balm for heartbreak and even predicted their future. The duo met in high school; they’re from neighboring small towns in Southern Illinois, Waterloo and Millstadt, where they now have a home. They went…
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I am the third-generation owner of a family business. The company is struggling now, and I can no longer afford to pay my parents who stopped working 11 years ago but still draw paychecks. Though the company has no legal obligation to pay them, my dad is threatening litigation. I made them an offer that…