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This reader-submitted essay series explores love in all its guises—romantic, obsessive, familial, platonic… you name it. If you are interested in submitting a potential essay, please go here.
They said with words what my heart had been screaming and my brain had been muting since we met
Every time she didn’t offer to make ravioli, I heard, “You aren’t the woman I want to keep”
Somewhere between the lyrics and catchy harmony, I fell in love
I learned more about myself and my partner when I began accepting my mental health as part of my identity
There are a lot of stressful things about a wedding—kissing your partner shouldn’t be one of them
My grandfather’s death taught me the depths of grief — and the importance of loving my unruly body
I spent years grappling with my sexuality — until she helped me come out on my own terms
What it’s like to return to a place where I never thought I could be myself
She chose this life with me over any other, and I’ll happily do what I can to make sure she doesn’t change her mind
Before she got Alzheimer’s, she never got to know me and after all of this, she never really will
I didn’t expect to find romance in my small town
It was intense and condensed — and we fooled no one but ourselves
How meeting one of my heroes reminded me to love my feminine self
We have two queer identities, but share one sibling bond
“I think I’m trans, too,” I said. “That’s okay,” he said, “I know.”
I was a lesbian who turned straight overnight. Then my husband came out as a trans woman.
He learned that my sexuality didn’t entirely define me
‘He said he was not attracted to men — even the man who used to be his girlfriend’
