Three Powerful Lessons About Love (Encore)

Modern Love

The New York Times

Nytimes, Redemption, Society & Culture, New York Times, Love, Essay, Storytelling, Loss, Nyt

4.4 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

When Daniel Jones started the Modern Love column in 2004, he called for submissions and hoped the idea would catch on. Twenty years and over a thousand published essays later, Modern Love is a trove of real-life love stories. Jones has put so much of himself into editing the column over the years, but as he tells Anna Martin, the host of the “Modern Love” podcast, the stories shared in the columns have influenced him, too. Today, he talks about three Modern Love essays that have changed the way he thinks about love and relationships. Read the essays below: One Bouquet of Fleeting Beauty, Please Nursing a Wound in an Appropriate Setting My First Lesson in Motherhood How to submit a Modern Love Essay to The New York Times How to submit a Tiny Love Story

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Anna.
0:01.8	The episode you're about to hear is from a special series
0:04.4	celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Modern Love Column.
0:08.0	It originally aired in early 2024.
0:11.0	We hope you enjoy it.
0:15.4	Love now and...
0:17.0	Did you follow you?
0:18.5	Love was stronger than anything.
0:20.8	And I love you more than anything. What a love. Love is stronger than anything. And I love you more than anything.
0:25.0	There's still love.
0:26.5	From the New York Times, I'm Anna Martin.
0:31.1	This is Modern Love.
0:33.4	This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Modern Love column.
0:39.3	20 years, can you believe that?
0:44.8	Two decades of essays that have made us laugh, made us gasp, broken our hearts, reminded us of the fundamental goodness of people.
0:47.4	And let's be honest, a lot of these essays should come with tissues.
0:51.9	It's kind of our thing here, making you cry.
0:56.0	To mark this big anniversary,
1:01.4	we've got a conversation with modern love founder Daniel Jones. Dan has edited around a thousand essays since the first one ran back in 2004. And when you spend all your
1:06.8	professional time contemplating human connection, that work doesn't stay at the office.
1:11.8	It impacts you in profound ways. So today, Dan shares the three essays that have changed the way
1:18.4	he approaches love and relationships in his own life.
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