After finishing up a game at the Punta Borinquen Golf Club in Aguadilla, P.R., Angelique Velez Sina went to a nearby bar and found herself the center of attention with a group of men who had been playing on the same course. “I was the only female there,” she said of that day in November…
“How’s your French coming along?” The familiar voice, accompanied by a light tap on my shoulder, surprised me. I turned and saw a former girlfriend, who was born in the Ivory Coast and raised in Paris. “Comme ci comme ça,” I responded as I accustomed myself to her unexpected presence. In reality, I’d barely spoken…
As editors of the Vows and Modern Love columns at The New York Times, we read love stories every day, and have come to appreciate how language and love are intimately connected. We believe the ways we express, understand and receive love are deeply influenced by the words we have at our disposal. This project,…
The dance floor is a hallmark of a wedding — it’s where guests can let loose and memories are often made. Of course, not all music at a wedding comes from the party portion. There are also those vibe-setting, lovey-dovey tracks that play throughout the event, and those are just as significant as the dance…
From the moment Matthew Alec Davis and Dr. Marc Mahoney Beuttler first made eye contact, they each felt an instant attraction. The two had connected on the dating app Grindr and agreed to meet on Aug. 11, 2015 at the now-closed restaurant Yuki Izakaya in New Orleans, where they talked easily over dinner. “Our eyebrows…
For 10 years, Eileen Patricia Fitzpatrick and Robert Mitchell Minondo refused to ruin their close-knit friendship. So they never even tested the waters of romance. But they could only hold out for so long. The two met in 2003 in junior high school — at what was then Intermediate School 30 in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn —…
I don’t wear my wedding ring anymore. I haven’t for the last 20 or so years. I’m not divorced, nor do I plan to be anytime soon. After 47 years, I haven’t outgrown my marriage but I have outgrown my ring. No amount of exercise reverses the flabbiness in my fingers. My gold band, size…
“I remember seeing her out of the corner of my eye, how she brought people into the conversation and how all the people surrounding her were laughing and having a good time,” he said. “I was thinking, Who placed me here and how can I get over there?” For Mr. Ng, 30, wondering how to…
Wilson Grad Conn wasn’t going to let his dating inexperience become a liability when he started seeing Rachel Lyn Honig in the fall of 2019. Rookie mistakes, he knew, were unavoidable. But at 55, he felt he had the life skills to get himself up to speed quickly, and that he had met a woman…
In the summer of 1992, Niffer Marie Desmond and her friend Caitlyn Meeks hosted a late night radio show called “the Bucket Sisters” at University of California, Santa Cruz, where they were undergraduates. On the show, they played CDs that were stacked on a shelf in the campus studio. One night, they stumbled upon a…