Your Stories of Love During The Pandemic

Modern Love

The New York Times

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

4.3 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Listeners share stories of how their relationships have changed during the coronavirus outbreak.

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0:00.0	Modern Love The Podcast is supported by...
0:05.0	Produced by the I-Leb, at WBUR Boston.
0:20.0	From The New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.
0:26.0	The New York Times
0:29.0	Stories of Love, Laws, and Redemption
0:33.0	I'm your host, Megna Chacrabardi.
0:42.0	Hey modern love listeners, we're thinking about all of you in this moment.
0:46.0	How are you doing?
0:48.0	We're now well into quarantine, and I know it's been a huge adjustment for you.
0:53.0	It's definitely been a huge adjustment for us.
0:56.0	It's incredible how much and how quickly life has changed.
0:59.0	And that includes our love lives.
1:02.0	I'll give you a little example from my own.
1:04.0	Just last night I decided that before dinner my kids, my husband and I would sit together,
1:09.0	and one by one just say, I love you and here's why to each of us.
1:14.0	It's something that we do, but not often enough, so I thought it would be a sweet, quick little thing,
1:19.0	like a fast squeeze of the hand when you're feeling a bit low.
1:23.0	Well, it wasn't quick.
1:25.0	All of us ended up talking a lot about each other, long lists of why we love each other.
1:31.0	Everything from being soulfully connected to, I love you, Dada, because you're a nice chap.
1:38.0	And you let me eat brownies.
1:40.0	That was the honest pure expression of love from our five year old.
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