While Ron Carlivati has made a career out of writing soap operas, his longtime partner, David Rogal, often prevents Mr. Carlivati’s life from becoming one. “I’m the more hotheaded, the more compulsive one in our relationship,” said Mr. Carlivati, 51, the head writer of the daytime drama “Days of Our Lives.” He also played the…
When Kara Weiss Maser got Barry Marc Funt’s text in March 2019 out of the blue, she figured it had to do with some community-related activity. Two decades earlier he had lived across the street from her in Livingston, N.J., when they were both married with small children. “He once did a political thing,” she…
The first time Henry Chapman asked out Melinda Becker, an acquaintance at Yale, where both were members of the imprecise and non-marching Yale Precision Marching Band, she was not entirely convinced he was being up front with her. “He says he was looking for a drinking buddy,” said Ms. Becker, 27. “I claim that was…
Not too long ago, I found myself sitting at a local coffee shop trying to focus on the task at hand: writing the introduction to an article concerning a unicorn float. You know, the kind that goes in the pool and shows up all over Instagram by people who don’t appear to have any intention…
Lara Eurdolian’s dream roof deck wedding with 160 guests in Brooklyn was planned for Sept. 26, 2020. But like thousands of couples, the coronavirus put an unexpected halt to her plans. “I still wanted to get married but I wanted to be sensitive to what people were going through,” said Ms. Eurdolian, the founder of…
The wedding registry was created years ago to help guests determine what newlyweds want or need for their home as a married couple — think monogrammed towels, china and kitchen mixers. But in recent years, it has evolved into much more. The registry has become a place for gifting just about anything a couple may…
When the coronavirus forced Claire Benjamin and Henry Fineberg to rethink their original wedding plans, they decided to elope in Colorado, choosing June 27 as a new date for their nuptials. But as it turned out, that summer day brought enough snow and powerful winds to turn the couple’s ceremony into the kind of adventure…
For many singles, the pressure from parents, family members and friends to find love and get married can often result in feelings of inadequacy. Some assume that not being in a relationship is synonymous with a sad and lonely life (some also assume that marriage is the cure). In this week’s Modern Love essay, after…
In June 2018, when Tara Harper told Frederick Rahr that she was going to drive eight hours round trip, from Dallas to Pasadena, Texas, to pick up an elderly and neglected German shepherd, she never imagined the man she had been seeing for just a few months would volunteer to join her. When he did,…
Alice Muglia and William Russo had been running in the same political circles since 2012, when she was working for the re-election of President Barack Obama and he was working in the White House for Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who is now the presumptive Democratic nominee. “We were always a part of the…