There was nothing traditional about my grandparents, other than, perhaps, my grandmother’s rabid interest in my love life. “I just want to be around long enough to dance at your wedding,” Mopsy, as we called my paternal grandmother, told me over and over again for a decade. When, four years ago, I did finally meet…
The love story of Mina Shankar and Dr. Aditya Radhakrishnan shares a theme with many others of late: he got Covid and she stood by him, even though their relationship was still new. While important in their journey as a couple, that experience is not what their love story is about. It is instead based…
In amusement park parlance, Leah Koch’s world had become a merry-go-round of disappointing dates when she met Matthew Blumhardt in 2018 at Holiday World, the theme park in Santa Claus, Ind., that her family has owned and operated for almost 76 years. “By the time I met Matt, I had pretty much become a homebody…
Sarah Elizabeth Weiner was working as a law clerk when she matched with David Samuel Schulman, who was in business school, on the dating app Bumble in September 2017. Setting a first date required a process by then familiar to both: negotiation. “He originally proposed going to the Cloisters,” Ms. Weiner said, referring to the…
Before the end of 2017, she had relocated. Three days after her arrival, Ms. Flores was spending New Year’s Eve with Mr. Morris, whose relationship had ended. They toasted to the start of 2018 with champagne at a now-closed bar in Brooklyn and started dating soon after. By March 2018, the two had become exclusive.…
Warren Braxton Luckett was working as a wholesale wine distributor when he first encountered Karinn Andrea Chavarria in April 2016, at the Menu of Menus culinary event held at Silver Street Studios in Houston. “I should have been focused on promoting my wines, but this amazing woman had an aura about her,” Mr. Luckett, 37,…
But after their first date, they “talked on the phone every single night, with few exceptions,” Mr. Woods said. “We also met nearly every single weekend,” alternating between Richmond and Washington, he added. In April 2019, while they were on a trip to New York, Mr. Smith told Mr. Woods he loved him and asked…
“I was making the biggest mistake if I didn’t try now,” he recalled thinking. Weeks later, when Dr. Yee took a trip to New York to visit family in December, Mr. Ma met her in the city, where he confessed his feelings for her. In January 2019, he asked her to be his girlfriend. By…
Their wedding, first planned for New Year’s Day 2022, was postponed because of the Omicron variant. They were married April 9 in front of 72 guests on the rooftop of Flannery Exchange, an office building and events venue in downtown Palm Springs, with the San Jacinto Mountains as a backdrop. Tony Bradford, a minister of…
He then left his apartment in Park Slope, Brooklyn, to stay with Ms. Walsh in Harrisburg, Pa., where she was working at a hospital and had recently begun helping to admit Covid patients. He lived with her for about two months — at first, they stayed in separate bedrooms — before the two moved back…