Semuteh Freeman and Dr. Uchechukwu Eke have had a very eventful year. A completion of medical training, a new job, a move halfway across the country, a marriage, an unexpected addition to the family and, of course, the coronavirus pandemic. “It was definitely challenging,” Ms. Freeman said. The two were initially drawn to each other…
Bruktaweit Addis and Tif Slama were feeling pretty good about their second date, after having met on the dating app Bumble in March 2016. They had spent their first date chatting about Ms. Addis’s fear of earthquakes and Mr. Slama’s love of Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a. the Rock, and were planning to spend their second date…
The thread that connects the relationship of Henriette Myrthil, who is known to all as Hank, and Kenneth Balkaran, is their status as front-line medical workers. Ms. Myrthil, now 46, and Mr. Balkaran, now 38, first spotted each other in 2005 at NYU. Langone Health, where she was a unit patient associate and he was…
Mary Beth Taylor bought Emma Hutchinson a hot dog on the night they met, in 2018, at a Knicks game in Madison Square Garden. The two had gone to the basketball game with a larger group and spent the whole game chatting with each other over someone else’s lap. They learned that they each shared…
Within five minutes, Andrew Stewart Heyman knew that he wanted to date Meredith Stacey Ganzman, and within 20 minutes he knew that he wanted to marry her. ”We knew the other was the one,” said Ms. Ganzman, who met him in New York in early November 2015 at Bar 6 in Greenwich Village. That date…
Across the country, young newlyweds are dealing with a host of new challenges and anxieties brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. Many have lost jobs or are worried about the possibility of losing work. Others are dealing with the stress of loved ones falling ill. And some — if they are lucky enough — are…
For some newlyweds, celebrating their first anniversary means eating a helping of their preserved wedding cake together. The cake-freezing ritual stems from a 19th-century convention in which partners saved the top tier for their first child’s christening (with some believing it to be an omen of good luck). Nearly 46 percent of brides and grooms…
About four years ago, David Strauss was separated but not yet divorced when he and a friend, having just finished playing tennis in Mamaroneck, N.Y., decided to have a bite to eat at the yacht and tennis club. Mr. Strauss’s friend recognized a couple, Susan and Stephen Flaxman, at a table, and the two men…
As a gay couple, Suneel Khanna and Carl Wolter are accustomed to questioning boundaries when it comes to love. But before they got married in Toronto on June 14, the geographical kind were new to them. Mr. Khanna (left), 45, and Mr. Wolter, 65, met on the dating app Growlr in April 2018. Mr. Wolter,…
Because marriage is an ever-evolving experience, we constantly shift, change and, in some cases, start over. In It’s No Secret, couples share thoughts about commitment and tell us what they have learned, revealing their secret to making it work. (Answers are edited for context and space.) Who Bonnie Brescia, 60, and Jeanette Poillon, 62 Occupation…