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From the New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.

Stories of Love, loss and redemption.

I'm your host, Megna Chakrabardi.

What do you do when you look at the person you've promised to spend the rest of your life with and realize you don't really talk with each other anymore?

Several years into her marriage, writer Molly Paskel had to confront that question.

Kristen Scott Thomas, who stars in the new movie Darkest Hour, reads her essay, How the Dining Dead Got Talking Again.

As two people, newly in love, we talked and talked.

We were in our early 30s then, so our talk included a history and a reckoning of all our previous loves, how they endured and how they ended.

We talked about our past loves to see how they stacked up against the present one.

Were any of them as big as this?

No. How could they be?

Falling in love for us meant falling into talk.

We talked about our memories, our broken bones, broken hearts and one broken marriage.

We talked about our mothers, one Jewish and one Italian, constantly cooking and feeding.

We talked about our fathers, neither of whom, cooked or fed.

We talked about our friends, come and gone.

We talked about our careers, climbing the ladder of success, falling off the ladder, leaning in and leaning out.

We talked about our dreams of traveling, of marriage, of how many children we would like and what we would name them.

With those subjects addressed, we turned to smaller details and anecdotes.

The story is about getting drunk, getting lost, crashing the car, stealing a candy bar and falling down a flight of subway stairs before a job in the car.

Finally, we talked about the non-stories, the quirky facts and facets of personality.

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