Modern Love: Our Marriage Includes an Emergency Backpack

Modern Love: Our Marriage Includes an Emergency Backpack

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Modern Love

August 15, 2025, 1:01 p.m. Eastern time

Every week, we’ll send you stories about relationships, feelings, betrayals and revelations. If you would like to share your own love story, consider submitting a Modern Love essay or a Tiny Love Story.

Brian Rea

Our Marriage Includes an Emergency Backpack

As an Israeli-Palestinian couple in the West Bank with family in Gaza, we have learned that love isn’t enough to save us, or anyone.

Tiny Love Stories: ‘It’s Our Secret’

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Where Did All My Male Friendships Go?

One man’s quest to cure his loneliness and get his friends back.

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We’re Just Here for the Sex, Please

When learning tantric sex in paradise, it can be hard to separate the physical from the emotional.

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