After his first date with Shawn Patrick Lamb in January 2019, Jarrold Jenn-yu Wong began to cry. “It was first time I felt I could actually be loved unconditionally for who I am,” he said. Dating had never brought him much joy. “It was not for lack of trying,” said Mr. Wong, known to friends…
When Kyle Dixon Moore met Courtney Midge Seamon the week before Thanksgiving seven years ago, he knew he had to act quickly to make an impression on her before leaving town for the holiday. The two connected through Kelly McFarland, Ms. Seamon’s cousin and current business partner and also a friend of Mr. Moore, on…
After matching on several dating sites in 2017, Joseph Michael Flaum was becoming increasingly interested in Allison Dana Port. She was feeling overwhelmed, however, not by Mr. Flaum but the barrage of messages she was continually receiving through the apps. So, when Mr. Flaum, 38, sent Ms. Port, 35, a message, she didn’t respond. Then,…
“Everyone’s ways of coping are different,” said Litsa Williams, 42, a social worker and a founder of What’s Your Grief, an online grief support and education company, and the author of What’s Your Grief, published this year. “It can be helpful in really practical ways to think about, how do I want my connection to…
For Cherie Rochelle King and Ilka Tiedemann, it proved true that the third time’s a charm. First, they saw each other. Second, they met each other. Third, they agreed to a date. The two first crossed paths on Nov. 19, 2016 at a women’s dance after the Perth Pride Parade in Australia. “We only saw…
In July 2013, Emily Erin Todebush wrote Garrett Odhiambo Arwa an email pretending they knew each other. “I said, ‘Hey, you might not remember me, but we worked together on the Obama campaign,’” she said. She hadn’t completely made it up: In August 2012, Ms. Todebush, then a volunteer field organizer for Mr. Obama’s presidential…
Though Ms. Love was ready to leave the modeling industry then, it took her another three years to do so, and Mr. Platt’s support proved crucial. “My whole life has been about how I look, and he sees past that,” Ms. Love said. Ms. Love was born in Tarrytown, N.Y., and moved to Miami when…
Still, the two spent the next summer together and continued to casually date. They broke up when she left for school — Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., from which she graduated cum laude, with a degree in communications. [Click here to binge read this week’s featured couples.] In 2017, during Easter break, they ran into…
Weddings may be a once-in-a-lifetime occasion for most people, but that doesn’t mean their wedding attire has to be stored away, never to be seen again, afterward. Many brides are finding new ways to repurpose their dresses. Sarah Jessica Parker’s “Sex and The City” character, Carrie Bradshaw, is just one of the former brides restyling…
“If the couple already has problems, you’ll see the nastiest things,” she said, “I’m like, oh my god, this is insane.” Fighting over text message, she said, is a kind of compulsion for certain people, a need to get a response right now rather than having a conversation that unfolds face-to-face. “To me, it’s part…