In the early days of their relationship, Kayla McCulley and Matthew Spencer created a book club — for two. “We both love to read,” said Mr. Spencer, 34, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif. He first met Ms. McCulley, 33, in November 2016, when both worked at the…
Over the summer, Lucas Robinson sat on his couch in Los Angeles, popped on a pair of virtual reality glasses and prepared to watch his friend’s wedding. The couple set up an entire V.R. system so guests could feel like they were at the wedding. “We were escorted to a seat, and everyone had a…
Jennifer Law and her husband, Matthew, at their wedding in 2008. He died of the virus in November. Some feel unacknowledged, struggling to manage the aftermath of their partners’ deaths amid an unending health crisis. “It was really difficult for me because I felt like, man, I’m all alone,” said Pamela Addison, 37, a teacher…
“He said, ‘don’t worry about bringing a lot of clothes, people don’t really care about getting dressed up here,’” she said. “I was like, what does that mean? I arrived at the airport and asked a woman who worked there where’s the lounge? She said, ‘What lounge? There are only two gates here.’ That’s when…
“People can be animals,” she said. We’d never had the talk about the birds and the bees, unlike my boyfriend, whose mother had given him a book in elementary school on such matters. I tried not to laugh. “Tell her that her daughter can be the animal,” my boyfriend said mischievously in the background. “I’ll…
Spaces for Sober Singles After eliminating alcohol from their lives, some sober individuals exclusively date nondrinkers. Outside traditional dating apps, are online platforms like 12StepMatch, Love in Recovery and Single and Sober where it’s understood that no one drinks. Loosid app, a sober social network that started in 2018, offers boozeless guides, chat groups and…
Few will miss saying goodbye to 2020, though most people will be celebrating the start of a new, and hopefully, a better year in a more subdued way because of the coronavirus pandemic. Your homebound New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day can still be romantic, nostalgic, and filled with traditions — old and new.…
If Stephanie Williams didn’t know she was going to marry LaMarr Coles III after their first phone call, she sensed she might after their first date. And she definitely knew it two weeks in, at the end of date No. 3. “I was already in love with him,” she said, on the September 2019 evening…
It took Chelsea Graham and Matthew Kocurek four years to to get to their first date. The couple, who met through mutual friends in 2013, would repeatedly run into one another at parties and events around Alvin, Texas. At one birthday dinner, they talked the night away. Sensing a strong connection, Mr. Kocurek began making…
Ugene Bynum knew he might not be able to fix Stacy Prather’s broken laptop, but when she and her godmother knocked on his Philadelphia front door asking for help in the fall of 2016, he didn’t turn them away. “I immediately said yes, I can fix it, even though I hadn’t even looked at it,”…