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Modern Love

When His Shorts Are Just Too Tight

Modern Love

The New York Times

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

4.39K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Love now and you're falling love.

0:06.0

That's the love.

0:07.0

A stronger than anything.

0:09.0

A bigger love.

0:10.0

And I love you more than anything.

0:13.0

A bigger love.

0:15.0

From The New York Times, I'm Mealy.

0:18.0

And I'm Dan Jones.

0:19.0

This is the Modern Love Podcast.

0:22.0

Today's essay shows that you can either

0:25.0

resent your partners' differences

0:29.0

or you can celebrate them.

0:31.0

And, you know, on a basic level,

0:33.0

it's about a husband embarrassing his wife.

0:35.0

And I have to tell you, Mia,

0:37.0

this is that rare Modern Love essay

0:39.0

that I couldn't identify with at all

0:41.0

because I've never personally experienced

0:43.0

embarrassing my wife.

0:44.0

Yes. Yeah, that's a thousand percent true.

0:47.0

Sure. The essay is called

0:49.0

My Husband War,

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