No matter the circumstance, divorce is hard. While seeking a gentler version of a separation, Jordana Jacobs, the writer of this week’s Modern Love essay, learns to respect her ex-husband’s boundaries and his new relationship while they adjust to living on two separate floors of a two-family home with their son. [Like this newsletter? Sign…
Name: Griffin Haddrill Age: 24 Hometown: Bozeman, Mont. Currently Lives: In a four-bedroom house in Las Vegas with walls covered in street art. Claim to Fame: Mr. Haddrill is a co-founder of VRTCL, an agency hired by major record labels to make songs go viral on TikTok through remixes, mash-ups, meme-able chorus snippets, creator partnerships…
Of course, there are romantic costs on both sides. This is dating when your ex-husband shares a two-family home with you: A man comes over, leans in for a first kiss, and hears your son pit-patting in the apartment above. He tries to ignore it, but he can’t help but think, “The father of her…
When Beverly O’Mara and Mark Uriu converted their loft in Jersey City, N.J., into a live-work space in 2015, they envisioned an airy, open apartment where Ms. O’Mara could have an art studio and Mr. Uriu could work from home on occasion. They added elements that made sense at the time, installing shoji screens that…
Evening Leather? Too leathery. Bahama Mama? Too beachy. Peaches and Cream? Out of season. Sweet Kitty? No. On the Sunday before Christmas, in a windowless basement under a braiding salon in Downtown Brooklyn, the actress and novelist Dagmara Dominczyk searched for the perfect aroma. A candle devotee since her undergraduate days at Carnegie Mellon University…
Meerim Ilyas and Maheisha Adams met in April of 2019 while attending the European Lesbian Conference in Kyiv, Ukraine. When the two decided to meet for dinner one night after the conference, both assumed it was a professional invitation. Yet by the end of the meal, the flowing conversation turned decidedly personal. Both left the…
Scott Hunter Malamut and Dr. Thomas Howe McConville met in January 2006 as members of the same fraternity at Cornell University. “Thomas and I were among 45 fraternity brothers, and among 30 brothers who lived in the frat house, where we did a lot of hanging out,” said Mr. Malamut, 35, who received a bachelor’s…
[Click here to binge read this week’s featured couples.] An appreciation for sports, the couple said, provided an early common ground. “Our shared love of sports, specifically N.F.L. Football, has remained a constant in our relationship,” Ms. Sundel said. Mr. Cerbone, a New York Giants fan, had planned to propose to Ms. Sundel, a New…
When Herman Stanley Parish IV, who goes by Stan, walked into Macao Trading Company, a restaurant in Manhattan, in November 2013, he didn’t know that he was about to begin a love story that would unfold across three countries and two continents. Mr. Parish had been having drinks with a friend, Peter Martin, who suggested…
It was. But getting there took a while. “We had kind of an awkward hug at the end of the date and then neither of us followed up,” Ms. Lake said. For weeks, she was distracted by the resurfacing of a man she previously dated. But when she recognized that relationship was going nowhere, she…