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

Stories of Love, Lost, and Redemption.

I'm your host, Megna Chakrabardi.

This week, we'll feature part two of our live Valentine's Day show at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston.

And we'll start off with the man behind the Modern Love column, editor Daniel Jones.

I'm going to read just a short piece that is called How We Write About Love.

Because I've written, or I've read, some, probably some 80,000 essays about love over 12 years I've been doing this.

So these are the lessons I've learned. Some of them. How are we right about love?

When I first started this job more than 12 years ago, I hardly knew anything about love.

In fact, a journalist who interviewed me early on in my job said at one point,

you're like a male Carrie Bradshaw.

And I had no idea what she was talking about. I'd never heard of Carrie Bradshaw.

I actually thought that she said I was like a male Carrie Bradshaw.

The former Steelers quarterback, now Fox Sports Commentator, who I'd grown up idolizing in my suburban Pittsburgh childhood.

This was confusing to me on so many levels.

First, what did Terry Bradshaw have to do with editing personal essays about relationships?

In second, Terry Bradshaw was male. The already was a male Terry Bradshaw.

It was like three months before I figured it out.

But over the years, I've learned that I'm not the only one who's a little stupid about this stuff.

Love is hard. Writing about love is even harder.

When some people write about love, they can't find the right words to capture the intensity of their feelings.

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