Not doing so may affect website accessibility. Find out more on how you can enable javascript in your browser or contact us for additional support. The practice of carving images into stone is one that has been around since prehistoric times. Used to depict symbols and pictures, stone carving was a way for people to tell stories, leave legacies and memorialise loved ones. In our modern world, stone carving is mainly used to commemorate a significant event, such as an opening of a building, or is found on memorials such as headstones.
Stone carving is the technique of moulding or carving stone and is a well-respected profession. The passing of a loved one has been marked using a headstone or memorial since ancient times.
Across the world you can find graveyards and church grounds filled with gravestones, lovingly engraved with the names and details of long lost friends and family.
The longevity of stone carving ensures that although they may be gone, they are not forgotten. A very popular symbol to be found on gravestones and memorials, especially those in church grounds, is that of an angel.
A figure of heaven and peace, an angel often offers those grieving with a sign of comfort that their loved one has moved on to a better place.
An angel carved into a memorial headstone can be seen as a symbol of the departed having someone to watch over their journey to heaven.
Many people often relate angels to symbols of love, which makes them a popular choice when commemorating the life of someone held dear. After years of tenure in that world, I was finally through. I waited for my husband with his newly sober eyes to want me with the same abandon he once had. And so we carried on. A father watches his son take up the battle to legalize marriage for gay and lesbian couples in California.
My soon-to-be ex turned out to be one of the few people who shared my vision of a better, more connected future — with different partners. Reorienting after ending an interracial relationship, a writer grapples with her singleness and her whiteness.
Quite the opposite, I was petrified by how much I loved him. Feeling shame and needing to be alone, a rape victim walks — and walks — searching for peace. Few men are thrilled by the idea of dating a woman with a child with a disability, particularly one as demanding as autism. Like many people, the author tends to write a story in her head about the future of any relationship before it has even begun.
I had a crush on Mac. But I feared losing my big, ridiculously inexpensive New York apartment with a view. The house where my wife had had a great time decorating — that house belonged to a life that was no longer mine.
But what about the most important one? Leaving behind her hometown of Medicine Hat in Alberta, the writer took a job in Bangkok, where her wish for love was unexpectedly answered. My troubled mother gave me up. My adoptive parents fought hard to get me.
I was an adult before I learned how lucky I had been. When a philandering father gives him his wedding ring, a writer revels in its power and what it means for his own life. When an ex-husband stays in the family, this time as a stepbrother, a writer tries to navigate shifting dynamics.
The death of a spouse rewrites the rules of a family in ways I never could have imagined. My boyfriend and I spent a happy Christmas together, and then he disappeared, without a word. Travel offered freedom and meant never having to commit to just one thing, or to one person. Inviting a child to enter our lives: would he accept? That is the question asked over and over at a fertility temple in Bhutan.
During marital difficulties, a couple turns to dancing — and rhythm — to get back in sync. About love. About life. Love today might not even follow the same format as real-life relationships of the past.
A woman learns how to embrace fears of her sexuality, much like her fear of snakes. Among animals, a remarkable gesture of interest wins a mate. In humans, our most useful allure is resistance. In Shanghai, my boyfriend, a white American, looked like just another foreigner taking home an Asian woman — me — like a souvenir. He took the first step in becoming a woman: surgery to help his face look more feminine. I felt kind of sick to my stomach, as if I had climbed through his bedroom window and stolen his journal from his dresser drawer.
On the third anniversary of my abortion, I found out via MySpace that my ex-boyfriend was having a baby with another woman. I hated that the absence of a wedding band might cause others to discount the level of our commitment. Giving up dress shoes, bookstores and a steady paycheck for unexpected connections to unexpected people.
Seeking familial acceptance in an interracial relationship, and finding boundaries to be prevalent. A season among the petroglyphs makes a young man reconsider all those love-related text messages. Making sense of a courtship set amid 19th-century log cabins and pioneers — in To my Indonesian immigrant parents, sex education involved instilling in me a deep fear of rape, jail, pregnancy, God and my mother.
Here is the winning essay. A surprising romantic connection laid out over the years and across the miles that linked one couple. We sought a certain romantic formality in what has become an informal and wholly nonromantic world.
He considered himself different from the rest of her fans; he felt he understood her better and wanted her more. After having her own child, a woman looks for a wife to bear another, with the same donor sperm. A sampling of intriguing tactics for locating love: familiar oldies that have been dusted off, and modernized, technology-driven alternatives. Two men, one name, and a vision of a romantic future together that changed in the process.
A mugging exposes the universality of trauma and the glorious imperfections of marriage. A road trip to show off a new baby to the family at Christmas takes a detour as darkness falls. There are some benefits to splitting up, but just not enough to actually end your marriage. A military wife keeps her fears to herself and lets her husband keep secret his stories of combat. Falling in love with someone in the meditation room happens so often that some Buddhists have a name for it: the Vipassana Romance V.
While waiting for the doctor, we kept his body company with stories of the life-cycle events of a long marriage. A mother of a gravely ill toddler learns that parental love is layered on, with each layer a shield of denial. At stake in the relationship were innocent creatures who knew nothing of people and people troubles. When everything went really wrong, a woman going through divorce reached for the sugary treats that made coping a bit easier.
A tense mother and daughter-in-law relationship takes a surprising turn when they suddenly need each other. She had just turned 40; he was This was harder than learning to ride a motorcycle. A television writer develops a show starring his girlfriend.
But the network had a different idea. Nick Flynn always imagined that one day he would be a father, but mostly it was off his radar. I was falling in love with him while matchmakers for a reality TV show were trying to find him a wife. My son was getting the brush-off from an alluring female he hoped to impress, and I wanted to share some hard-won male insight. After being branded by her family as cold, a woman finds out what a damaged heart is capable of.
A novice monk faces two different loves, and is torn between a heavenly and an earthly calling. The editor of the series attempts to answer some of the prevalent questions about love he has observed Americans asking recently. I was in love with a handsome man with whom I shared a love of books, and I wanted to view that as our singular experience. Yet this was not a simple love affair between two people.
Turner Syndrome leaves a woman infertile, and forces her to mourn the loss of expectations from family and friends. A man looks back on 35 years of marriage and how he and his wife have managed to stay married so long. Amid anxiety, a family celebrates the wonders of military life with a wedding for a son going off to war.
A mission experience in Taiwan arouses an intense desire for human connections in a year-old Mormon woman from the United States. There are two kinds of madness: the kind that strikes suddenly, like a startled bird, and the kind that stalks silently for years, circling round and round until you are fully gathered in its dark wings.
Mine was the latter. After the death of her daughter, a mother risks her heart again by adopting another child. A father answers his question on what he will do for his son who has special needs. A mother is in charge of every fragment of her deceased husband's life, and she's doing right by it. For one couple, "wife" was a label that changed meaning in their house, as well as society.
A conflict with her daughter has a mother wondering how far can you go to help an adult child. A father wonders why his son and father are such a pair, while he and his father seem like such a mismatch. In an attempt to distract himself from emptiness, a man begins a one-sided love affair at the gym. A son still finds good in a stepfather who had questionable values, but made sure he had decent ones.
Tom Waits's music cuts through years of turbulence and strain between a mother and her daughters. He told me that he could not live without me, and that he would not stop telling me how he felt. And then he disappeared. The realism of a gritty TV program gives a couple joy in their last moments together. A woman with regrets gets a second chance at a husband, home and a baby, in that order. After being crippled in a car accident, a wife bobs peacefully, looking once again like every other person lolling in the sea.
A daughter remembers how trading fathers meant changing not only a parent, but also countries, accents, lives. A daughter gets to know a country and a woman that have always been close to her, but that she never really knew. A woman finds support in strangers after she's diagnosed with breast cancer for a second time. I had a habit of getting a tattoo after a breakup, believing a tattoo was sexy because everyone could see that you opted for pain.
I used the Internet as a means of communication with women I had already met offline in order to overcome my social awkwardness and forge romantic relationships. Owen Powell, a runner-up in the Modern Love college essay contest, writes about his dreams of Natalie Portman, while serving in Iraq. I was surprised to hear he was a father. I was 28 then and had never dated a guy with a child.
Also, he seemed like sort of a kid himself. A woman goes public with her bipolar disorder, and assesses how it shaped her love life. My husband and I moved to Mexico to break into international reporting, but a bigger decision lay ahead.
My therapist dubbed me the Needless Wonder for my doormat ways. So I decided to take some action. It began and ended with a butcher knife. I had tried to take care of my boyfriends. I never imagined one would take care of me. As the editor of the modern love column, Daniel Jones finds one common thread: Wisdom about love is sorely lacking. How does a child who spends her early life glued to your hip suddenly turn into a person who seems convinced that you were put on earth simply to frustrate her ambitions and dreams?
Peter Napolitano Modern Love essay on how he, year-old unattached gay man, moved back home with his year-old mother after she broke her hip and even shared her bed because she was so afraid of having another fall during night; drawing M. Katherine Friedman Modern Love essay recalls flying to Mexico with her husband on plane that nearly crashed; drawing M.
Dena Crosson Modern Love article describes cleaning her house, physically and metaphorically, after her husband left her; drawing M. Lisa A Phillips Modern Love article on relationship with man with whom she was obsessed; says she could have been described as stalker and is relieved that she has moved on, but is still haunted by feelings of being driven by desire; drawing M. You get obsessively vigilant when you realize having a baby is not just up to you.
Wendy Paris Modern Love article relates her feelings about having two miscarriages after having waited until she was almost 40 to begin to think about starting her family; drawing M. Victoria Loustalot Modern Love column recalls her father, who lived most of his life as closeted gay man; he died of AIDS, leaving her and her mother with dilemma of how to dispose of his ashes; drawing M.
A Z Cohn Modern Love essay on being happily married but living in her own apartment in Israel to maintain independence; says when war broke out with Hezbollah, she moved in with her husband and discovered that living together turned out to be as e Francine Maroukian Modern Love essay on her relationship with younger man; drawing M. An Irish boyfriend competes with the tug of letters from my Jewish great-grandmother. Lauren Fox article on deciding to marry man she loved, a Potestant-raised, atheist Irishman, even though she deeply wanted to marry a Jew in order to honor members of her family lost to Holocaust; drawing M.
Lindsay Sterling Modern Love essay on her anger at airport security for confiscating frozen gel packs she needed to preserve breast milk; she was accumulating milk on one business trip in order to have enough to leave infant daughter again for ano Lynne Nugent Modern Love article on her vacillation about having a baby, which her husband would accept, but only to please her; describes how her desire for child sharpened when she saw photograph of her husband as young boy; drawing M.
Suki Kim Modern Love essay on staying in doomed relationship with incompatible man for more than a year; drawing M. Michelle Wildgen Modern Love essay on ignoring early warning signs of her husband's alcoholism; drawing M. The storm season tapered off, and with no more tender moments to hold us together, our relationship crumbled. THE first time I said it, I thought it was the best kind of lie: tender and considerate.
My boyfriend and I were lounging in bed as a gust of wind from one of those sweeping Midwestern thunderstorms crashed against the flimsy picture window of Kim McLarin Modern Love article on being black woman, once married to white man, who learns she cannot date another white man because he does not grapple with issue of race; drawing M.
An older dad wonders: dentures before baby teeth? Rand Richards Cooper Modern Love article on joy and anxiety of becoming father his mid's with full complement of sports injuries; drawing M.
Jennifer Glaser Modern Love essay recalls holding on to physical relationship with her boyfriend as he struggled with fatal leukemia, because sex was antithesis of death M. Abigail Thomas essay, adapted from her book A Three Dog Life, describes changes in her husband and in their relationship after he suffered traumatic brain injury; drawing M. In she walked, a flattering, dirty-blonde asking me for painkillers.
I had been warned: Addicts can be creative, ruthless and even seductive. A J Kim Modern Love article on how, as new nurse practioner, he prescribed painkillers to addicted woman patient who played on his ego and sympathy and was receiving painkillers from a doctor at same time; drawing M.
Jamie Callan Modern Love article on marrying someone she first met when he was student in writing class she taught; drawing M. Put "Catholic" and "gay wedding" together, and you get an extravaganza of rituals. Alison Luterman article on wedding of two Catholic men for whom she held the huppah; drawing M. Theodora Stites Modern Love article discusses how technology dominates her relationships; drawing M.
The morning I turned 18, I was told I was going blind. I would give anything to tell you what my wife looks like, but I can't. A real blind love, the literal kind, is a giving over of consciousness.
Ryan Knighton Modern Love article on how his blindness has created literal blind love for his wife; says he is able to give over his consciousness and let her see for him; says they share rare and unique closeness; drawing M. Amy Sutherland Modern Love column on using exotic animal training techniques to modify her husband's behavior; says after two years of training she finds her marraige smoother and her husband easier to love; says her husband got to employ techniqu Sophia Raday Modern Love article on being anti-war pacifist married to police officer and Army reservist who is due to be sent to Iraq; drawing M.
In step confessional style, this is what love addiction did to my life: I dropped out of college, quit my job, stopped talking to my family and friends and contemplated suicide. Rachel Yoder Modern Love article describes her journey from partner in unhealthy addictive relationship to path of self-discovery through therapy and nasty break-up; drawing M.
Linda Dackman Modern Love article describes how prayer to Santa Rita, patron saint of desperate or impossible causes, is answered; finds love in Florence, Italy; drawing M. I couldn't let my parents arrange my Indian marriage from Indiana. I would have to find my own suitable boy. Or perhaps even an unsuitable one.
Sarita James Modern Love article on her parents' attempts to find her 'suitable boy' to marry who is both Indian and Catholic; drawing M. I was the girl with a framed photo of Gloria Steinem on her bedroom wall, beside a photo of a young Frank Sinatra. J Courtney Sullivan Modern Love essay on dating and falling in love with man who understands and respects her feminist beliefs; drawing M. The part of me that wanted to die simply crawled off into the woods and never came back. Katherine Ozment Modern Love essay recalls giving birth to son on cold winter's day in Chicago, and her love for him today, three years later in snowless California M.
I have often joked to friends that I married my husband for his sense of direction. And since I met him, the scope of my travels has expanded greatly. Michele Herman Modern Love essay on her husband's unerring sense of direction during their world travels, except for one treasured moment for her when he got lost on highway in New Jersey and turned to her for help; drawing M.
I had come to Bangladesh to try to clean the slate of past relationships. Now I was pursuing the most unlikely possible romance. I'm a stripper with a delectable boyfriend and a rock 'n' roll band. I should be having more sex than anyone. Liv Osthus, sex writer, stripper and musician, describes preliminary interview with producers for reality show that will center around couples therapy; says that sex life with her husband is less prolific than many would think; explores how career The dog and I fell in love, as humans tend to do with their dogs, and we were the ones who became inseparable.
Sheila Kohler Modern Love essay on being cat person who falls in love with dog; notes that she and her second husband got dog to help her bond with her stepsons; drawing M.
I'VE had five husbands. Four were mine; one was someone else's. I would not recommend going the borrowed husband route, but I will admit it was interesting. And instructive. My borrowed husband B. One was a lot Margo Howard Modern Love column discusses her relationship with philandering married man; drawing. I had a cowboy once. It wasn't like Ennis and Jack, more like Roy and Dale. But it was still hard for me to quit him. Ronald K Fried Modern Love column on his and his wife's love for their Greenport, NY, home and their love for neighbor's cat and how they all survived propane explosion and fire that destroyed the house; drawing M.
In that breakup I felt like I lost my husband, best friend, father and brother all at once. Asha Bandele Modern Love Column describes falling in love and marrying convicted murderer while he was still in prison; talks about fears and difficulties she encountered when visiting her husband and why she chose to end marriage after she gave b I think everyone will see things my way if I just explain them properly. So I keep explaining. I keep talking. Catherine Lloyd Burns Modern Love essay on being very different from her husband, who, unlike herself, is capable of solving problems in gradual way, particularly when they involve issues with their infant daughter M.
I liked the idea of being someone's someone else. I didn't like the idea that that someone had a girlfriend. Xeni Fragakis Modern Love column on brief romance she had with man who lives in house he built himself that is 8 feet by 12 feet; drawing M. My daughter was a Beatles fan by the time she was five, and she had already fallen for John.
It's O. Veronica Chambers Modern Love column says it is all right to be clingy and desperate when dating men who are just not that into you because they are simply preparing you for the one who is into you; drawing M. As the editor of this column, sifting through the tales of love, sex, dating and marriage, I offer the following thoughts on the oft-tortured state of modern love.
Daniel Jones Modern Love column gives overall observations about love, sex and dating in 21st century compiled from many letters and e-mails sent to columnist; drawing M. The bracing truth is that he was living larger than I was, in my place.
Everything felt chaotic and alien. Heather Fenby Modern Love column on clutter and chaos her boyfriend brought into her life when she let him move into her tiny apartment; drawing M. He wore gray turtleneck sweaters and smelled like mint aftershave and old books. He reminded me of my father, but his intentions were hardly paternal.
Abby Sher Modern Love column on dating an older man who reminded her of her father; drawing M. Roy wanted me to know that he and my father weren't just a couple of guys boozing it up out on the boat. MY sister e-mailed me the death notice from The Seattle Times with just this cryptic note: ''Make sure you read all the way to the bottom. Like Ginger Rogers I danced out of the theater with an airy, lightheaded feeling.
It was like renewable virginity. Lainie Keslin Ettinger describes how solo outings to see romantic comedies reinvigorated her sex life with her husband; drawing M. In the continuing case of Full-Time Homemaker vs. Working Mother, I offer myself as Exhibit A. Terry Martin Hekker, author of book Ever Since Adam and Eve, which touts woman's right to be homemaker, describes what it is like to have your husband leave you and be divorced at age 60; holds that few women of her generation are prepared to ente Watching my father's illness progress was watching him move inward to some secret, native core.
WHEN my father was fairly well along into the dementia of Alzheimer's -- not as far as he was to go, but four or five years in -- he developed a taste for looking attentively at trees. At the time I was not aware that this is a common pleasure for One of those children up for adoption was mine.
My kid, misplaced somehow, and determined to find her way home. FOR about a year, for the first time in my life, I was addicted to a Web site. Well, two Web sites actually, both of which did the same thing. They listed beautiful children, tragic children, children whose photographs were displayed in colorful r For a selfless surrogate mother, the heartbreak that came from leaving was a surprise. IN the bright California sunshine I'm watching a little girl run around the playground.
Her wispy blond hair escapes once again from the ponytail one of her fathers carefully formed for her. She is adorable in her pink, black and white dress with Little has been written about the time when parents are supposed to cut back on the physical contact with their children. Linda Baker Modern Love article on strong physical bonds she has with her children and altering hugging and similar behavior as children get older; drawing M.
After months of contemplating breaking up with her boyfriend, the author finally ended the relationship using a PowerPoint presentation. LAST spring I broke up with someone perfect. Perfectly, that is. Last spring I broke up with someone perfectly. I set out exactly which aspects of our relationship were lacking and why, meticulously charted our decline, and pared months of frustra At 14, our son spiraled out of control. We looked into having him taken away to a wilderness program that would help him.
IT'S dark. I lie in bed with my eyes open. The windows are closed, but I can still hear the gentle midnight roar of the New Jersey Turnpike, a mere quarter-mile from the front door of my safe suburban home. Safe, that's a joke. Walk through m I AM a good, practical girl. I eat my vegetables.
I go to bed early. In fact at 31, I'm not just good, I'm also an apprehensive priss -- and I hate it. In an attempt to invent a brave new me I joined an online dating Web site.
Something had to She had dark pageboy hair and ever-scanning eyes, as though reading some invisible teleprompter. I WAS married, and feeling the stirrings of loneliness, when I started thinking seriously about getting a dog. In broaching this subject with my husband of a year and a half, I didn't mention the loneliness part. I simply told him I wanted a dog a IT'S a big morning for me: a breakfast date at my place, and I'm cooking.
I've scoured the markets and rounded up the best of everything: oranges for zesting, pears for roasting, balsamic for drizzling, goat cheese for crumbling and, to amp up my And he is good-looking, our son, with his blue eyes, wavy hair, broad shoulders and warm smile.
He's also got a deep voice he wor We met at a party, where he hovered around my conversational circle for a while and then came up to me and asked, ''Are you with someone? I'd come with my office mate, another editor.
I admit it looked silly, and it felt silly, too. But my psychotherapist had urged me to start writing down my conversations with people about what had happened I'M driving my niece and nephew to the Museum of Science. At the end of our outing, when I take them home, their father -- my brother John -- will tell them that their mother's latest cancer treatment has failed and that she will die.
But for now I WAS in my favorite restaurant again, everything in its place except for the empty seat across from me. I never minded eating alone, though I'd long experienced shared meals, especially really great ones, as the ultimate intimacy. Since my br THERE was no guarantee that doing an open adoption would get us a baby any faster than doing a closed or foreign adoption.
In fact, our agency warned us that, as a gay male couple, we might be in for a long wait. This point was driven home when bo There was no guarantee an open adoption would get us a baby any faster than a closed or foreign adoption, but we decided to try to do it anyway. It's still afternoon but already there are a few office workers here loosening thei Though I know I cede my power the minute I get in a car, I feel we're driving on my terms because they're taking me where I want to go.
Some of you are waiting for the phone to ring, or for him to kiss you, or propose, or come home. I just have my thumb out, and I never have to wait long. Though I know I cede my power the minu She wouldn't tell him she still loved him in spite of everything. Did I dare disturb the universe and interfere? I MET Krista after an abrupt breakup with a live-in boyfriend.
I needed a new place to live, and responding to an ad, I found refuge in what felt like the Brooklyn Annex for Aging Spinsters, an apartment of three women between 33 and 40, nursing v I think I like young guys, especially guys in their 20's, because, at heart, I am a guy in my 20's.
I woke up happy one morning, not taxed by too much work, not depressed, not sleep deprived. But my brain, forever searching for something to worry about, could not let this placid moment be and quickly started an argument with an imaginary boyfrie Would Julie and I ever have gotten together if I hadn't been a drowning alcoholic in need of her outstretched hand?
MY first date with Julie did not begin well and ended even worse. For starters, I didn't show. It was Saturday evening of Presidents' Day weekend, and I was drinking gin and tonics and watching hoops in the Telephone Bar on Second Avenue, whiling THE orange message light on my cellphone started blinking as I was getting ready for bed.
Barely an hour had passed since our quick kiss goodnight at the subway, and I was surprised to see the screen light up with the initials I'd just entered int When I started to read my nanny's online diary, our entire relationship unraveled.
OUR former nanny, a year-old former teacher with excellent references, liked to touch her breasts while reading The New Yorker and often woke her lovers in the night by biting them. She took sleeping pills, joked about offbeat erotic fantasies I WAS playing with my friend's toddler recently, taunting him with an animal voice: ''Grrrr, get over here.
I'm a hungry tiger, and you're one tiny mouse! A LOT of people think I was brainwashed. How else to explain why I would allow the Rev. Sun Myung Moon of the Unification Church to choose my spouse? Most people regard the choice of a life partner as a deeply personal decision, perhaps the mos NATE was my breakup buddy.
We were introduced at Scruffy Murphy's Irish Bar by a mutual friend who thought we'd like each other. And I liked Nate instantly. With his tight crew cut and animated features, he seemed transplanted from another generat I HEAR them before they come in, all thumps and frantic whispers in the hall outside my bedroom. Then the door opens just enough for their shoulders and elbows to jostle through as they compete to be first, followed by the melody of my own persona IT'S done: I've finally finished moving my ex-husband's belongings back into the large, cluttered farmhouse we used to share.
He won't be coming back, but his shirts once again weigh down the closet rack, his boxes of household gadgets and financi A mutual friend had fixed us up on a blind date. She said Ally was smart and fun. I said I appreciated the gesture, but I had my hands full. The mutual friend lowered her voice and added, ''She has a terrific body. Dancing a few steps in a beautified gymnasium is the least I could do to thank the girls who helped me become who I am.
It makes a charming notion for love. It also happened to make an airtight refund policy for the online dating conglomerate I was working for in Los Angeles.
Lovelorn hopefuls paid my employer for the opportu FOR my wedding this July, I won't be writing my own vows. I'll have no readings. There will be no customized ceremony reflecting the uniqueness of my union through programs printed from my own computer. No aria sung in French. No reading of a poem I'M a good mother. This is not an idle boast; I have a signed certificate that says so. I earned this de facto mothering license by successfully completing four weeks of court-ordered parent classes.
Why did a judge order me to do this? Was I a ch My father died from alcoholism, and we're all be survivors of some kind. All I know is he was capable of doing great damage. IT is nearly midnight when I get home from my waitress job. I've been out of college for two years and have moved back into my mother's home in Islip, N.
When I walk in the back door, my mother MY ex-husband is gay, and I knew it when I married him. We were only 23, at the start of our promising careers, but he, alas, was at the end of his student visa.
So I married Rickie to keep him from being sent back to his gay-intolerant Muslim hom SINCE I know what it's like to sob on nearly every single form of public transportation in the New York metropolitan area, I can tell you with authority that crying on the subway is the most cathartic. I suppose I'm not a full-fledged expert in lo Linda Dackman Modern Love column discusses inelegant art of choosing sperm donor; drawing; photo M.
Sara Pepitone Modern Love column discusses difficulty of working with significant other and even having information on their upcoming termination; drawing M. For a mother, libido, as she once knew it, is gone, replaced by all-consuming maternal desire.
Except, that is, for me. Rebecca Eckler Modern Love column discusses being torn between fiance and new male friend, which is complicated by pending birth of fiance's baby; photo M. Jean Hanff Korelitz Modern Love column discusses stage in some middle-aged men's lives when they take up guitar-playing; drawing M. Meredith Hall Modern Hall column discusses difficulty of reuniting with son given up for adoption; drawing M.
Katherine Tanney Modern Love column discusses marriages that end when one spouse is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease; drawing M. Cathy Lickteig Makofski Modern Love column discusses difficulty parents face in understanding a son's decision to become a tattoo artist or motorcycle mechanic; drawing M. Brendan Tapley Modern Love column discusses love of football as viable bridge between homosexual social banter and that of straight men; drawing M. Bonnie J Rough Modern Love column discusses difficulty of deciding whether or not to have children when one person is carrying genetic disorder that may be passed on; drawing M.
Irene Sherlock Modern Love column discusses dating after two divorces; drawing M. She laughed. Then she stopped laughing. Jennie Yabroff Modern Love column discusses complexities of calling off wedding at last minute; drawing M.
Kelly McMasters Modern Love column discusses difficulty of dating an artist who paints nude women; drawing M. Rich Cohen Modern Love column discusses fatherhood and changes in perspective it engenders; drawing M.
YES, we were on an idyllic rock on a postcard-worthy cove on the New England coast. Fine, there was fumbling and nervousness and the oh-so-slyly stashed champagne in the vegetable draw We are facing each other on opposite beds in a motel room in Louisiana.
It is after 3 a. This is no Calvin Klein advertisement. This is Jean Braithwaite Modern Love column discusses insecurities about weight that can consume person about to meet date and potential lover for first time; drawing M. Brendan Halpin Modern Love column discusses difficulty of dating after death of spouse; drawing M. Tzivia Gover Modern Love essay on gender-bending life she lives with her lesbian partner; drawing M. A self-described emotional exhibitionist, this blogger found herself reaping all of the consequences of a blogging relationship but none of the benefits.
Heather L Hunter Modern Love essay on discovering that writing daily Web log about a particularly difficult relationship can backfire; drawing M. Autumn Stephens Modern Love essay on healing her breast cancer and healing her wounded marriage; drawing M. Podcast ». Was I on a Date or Baby-Sitting? Close Enough for Momma, Too Close for Me Peter Napolitano Modern Love essay on how he, year-old unattached gay man, moved back home with his year-old mother after she broke her hip and even shared her bed because she was so afraid of having another fall during night; drawing M.
Live Without Me. My plane was plunging, but life would go on. Did It Make Me a Stalker? Fatherly Memories Scattered to the Wind Victoria Loustalot Modern Love column recalls her father, who lived most of his life as closeted gay man; he died of AIDS, leaving her and her mother with dilemma of how to dispose of his ashes; drawing M. It Took a War, but I Finally Moved in With My Husband A Z Cohn Modern Love essay on being happily married but living in her own apartment in Israel to maintain independence; says when war broke out with Hezbollah, she moved in with her husband and discovered that living together turned out to be as e When a Relationship Carries the Weight of History Lauren Fox article on deciding to marry man she loved, a Potestant-raised, atheist Irishman, even though she deeply wanted to marry a Jew in order to honor members of her family lost to Holocaust; drawing M.
Nursing My Daughter, and Some Grievances Lindsay Sterling Modern Love essay on her anger at airport security for confiscating frozen gel packs she needed to preserve breast milk; she was accumulating milk on one business trip in order to have enough to leave infant daughter again for ano Mortality Can Be a Powerful Aphrodisiac Jennifer Glaser Modern Love essay recalls holding on to physical relationship with her boyfriend as he struggled with fatal leukemia, because sex was antithesis of death M.
I Dulled Her Pain, and My Judgment A J Kim Modern Love article on how, as new nurse practioner, he prescribed painkillers to addicted woman patient who played on his ego and sympathy and was receiving painkillers from a doctor at same time; drawing M.
Married, but Certainly Not to Tradition Alison Luterman article on wedding of two Catholic men for whom she held the huppah; drawing M. Seeing the World Through my Wife's Eyes Ryan Knighton Modern Love article on how his blindness has created literal blind love for his wife; says he is able to give over his consciousness and let her see for him; says they share rare and unique closeness; drawing M.
What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage Amy Sutherland Modern Love column on using exotic animal training techniques to modify her husband's behavior; says after two years of training she finds her marraige smoother and her husband easier to love; says her husband got to employ techniqu Strung Out on Love and Checked In for Treatment Rachel Yoder Modern Love article describes her journey from partner in unhealthy addictive relationship to path of self-discovery through therapy and nasty break-up; drawing M.
Losing My Way Has Been a Way of Life for Me Michele Herman Modern Love essay on her husband's unerring sense of direction during their world travels, except for one treasured moment for her when he got lost on highway in New Jersey and turned to her for help; drawing M.
A Reality Show for Couples Therapy? Sign Us Up Liv Osthus, sex writer, stripper and musician, describes preliminary interview with producers for reality show that will center around couples therapy; says that sex life with her husband is less prolific than many would think; explores how career This Is Where the Dog Comes In Sheila Kohler Modern Love essay on being cat person who falls in love with dog; notes that she and her second husband got dog to help her bond with her stepsons; drawing M.
The Day the House Blew Up Ronald K Fried Modern Love column on his and his wife's love for their Greenport, NY, home and their love for neighbor's cat and how they all survived propane explosion and fire that destroyed the house; drawing M.
I Need to Woman Up and Do This on My Own Asha Bandele Modern Love Column describes falling in love and marrying convicted murderer while he was still in prison; talks about fears and difficulties she encountered when visiting her husband and why she chose to end marriage after she gave b Figure It Out?
Loved and Lost? You're Not Sick, You're Just in Love Daniel Jones Modern Love column gives overall observations about love, sex and dating in 21st century compiled from many letters and e-mails sent to columnist; drawing M. So He Looked Like Dad. It Was Just Dinner, Right? A Passion for the Movies? Yes, Yes Paradise Lost Domestic Division Terry Martin Hekker, author of book Ever Since Adam and Eve, which touts woman's right to be homemaker, describes what it is like to have your husband leave you and be divorced at age 60; holds that few women of her generation are prepared to ente Father and Daughter: One Final Connection WHEN my father was fairly well along into the dementia of Alzheimer's -- not as far as he was to go, but four or five years in -- he developed a taste for looking attentively at trees.
Mother Must Muzzle the Nuzzle Linda Baker Modern Love article on strong physical bonds she has with her children and altering hugging and similar behavior as children get older; drawing M. Point 1: We Had Fun. Point 2: It's Over. Point 3: Get Lost. Love Me, Love My Dog. All Right, Love My Dog. Adolescence, Without a Roadmap ''AT least he's good-looking,'' I say to my husband whenever the subject of our oldest son's dating future comes up.
I nodded. Here's Looking at You, Kid I woke up happy one morning, not taxed by too much work, not depressed, not sleep deprived. R We D8ting? The New Nanny Diaries Are Online OUR former nanny, a year-old former teacher with excellent references, liked to touch her breasts while reading The New Yorker and often woke her lovers in the night by biting them. Who's That Lady in the Bedroom, Daddy? Beyond Divorce and Even Death, a Promise Kept IT'S done: I've finally finished moving my ex-husband's belongings back into the large, cluttered farmhouse we used to share.
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