Celebrating 20 Years of ‘Modern Love’

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🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The New York Times’ Modern Love column debuted on Halloween 20 years ago, “three years before iPhones, eight years before Tinder, and 11 years before same-sex marriage became legal in the US.” We’ll look back at the heartwarming and sometimes heartbreaking submissions from Modern Love readers about their loves, losses and complicated relationships. And we’ll discuss what they reveal about how we’ve changed as a country over two decades in the ways we find and celebrate love. What’s your modern love story? Guests: Anna Martin, host of the “Modern Love” podcast, The New York Times Daniel Jones, author, "Love Illuminated: Exploring Life's Most Mystifying Subject (with the Help of 50,000 Strangers)" and editor of The New York Times' Modern Love column Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.5	From KQED in San Francisco, this is Forum. I'm Nina Kim. New York Times modern love column debuted on Halloween 2004, three years before iPhones, eight years before Tinder, and 11 years
1:09.7	before same-sex marriage became legal
1:11.6	nationwide, says Daniel Jones, who's been editing the column from the beginning. We look at what
1:17.0	decades of story submissions about relationships, their betrayals, and revelations tell us about the
1:23.8	changing ways we find and celebrate love and what they teach us about how to love better.
1:30.9	What's your modern love story? Join us on Forum.
1:33.8	Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. The Times Modern Love Column debuted 20 years ago on Halloween. Now more than 200,000 readers submissions later, it's a rich source of relationship, wisdom, struggle, and inspiration. And it's grown to include a podcast,
2:02.8	book, and TV show, and a tiny love columns of essays of a hundred words or less, like this one
2:08.8	from Catherine S. Cushing. A shy, uncomfortable devil fidgeted at the Halloween party, anxious to go
2:14.7	home. Newly out at 38, devil believed a monkish life would be her future.
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