AvatarVOGUE.COMAvatarAvatarI Couldn’t Make Sense of Our Breakup, Until I Realized I Was the VillainVOGUE.COM - By Elise TaylorLove Stories is a series about love in all its forms, with one new essay appearing each day through the week of Valentine’s Day . My cousin told me Matt was married. Or maybe it was my aunt—some family member that still followed him on Instagram, even though I didn’t. (When we’d broken up, I …
AvatarVOGUE.COMAvatarAvatarMy Secret HusbandVOGUE.COM - By Lilah RamziLove Stories is a series about love in all its forms, with one new essay appearing each day through the week of Valentine’s Day . There’s a Reddit thread dedicated to uncovering the identity of my husband. A colleague made me aware of it a week after I announced my engagement on Instagram with a …
AvatarVOGUE.COMAvatarAvatarHe Didn't Love Me, But He Changed My LifeVOGUE.COM - By Megan NolanLove Stories is a series about love in all its forms, with one new essay appearing each day until Valentine’s Day. I had a game I would play with myself to test whether I was truthfully over my ex. The game was this: I would force myself to imagine that he came back to me, asking me to be with him, …
AvatarVOGUE.COMAvatarAvatarI Could Not Spot a LiarVOGUE.COM - By Plum SykesLove Stories is a series about love in all its forms, with one new essay appearing each day until Valentine’s Day. “You’re the Bridget Jones of the West Village darling,” my friend declared. She giggled as I wept my way through another tale of romantic woe over a Cosmopolitan at four in the morning …
AvatarVOGUE.COMAvatarAvatarI Had to Lie To Find True LoveVOGUE.COM - By Zibby OwensLove Stories is a series about love in all its forms, with one new essay appearing each day until Valentine’s Day. I started lying when I fell in love. My marriage was on the rocks when I started taking tennis lessons from a dashing young pro. But really, I was the one on the rocks. My identity as a …
AvatarVOGUE.COMAvatarAvatarWhat I Learned About Love and Loss at a French Nudist ColonyVOGUE.COM - By Eviana Hartman Illustration by Katrien De BlauwerWhat could possibly be more surreal than finding yourself naked in front of your in-laws? How about spending a weekend naked together with your in-laws? How about spending a weekend naked together in the south of France with your Parisian in-laws and your toddler when you are freshly widowed, and the …
AvatarVOGUE.COMAvatarAvatarTo All The Boys I Couldn’t Love BeforeVOGUE.COM - By José Criales-Unzueta Illustration by Katrien De BlauwerRight before the holidays, I had dinner with one of my closest friends in the city. I was emotionally preparing to go back home to Bolivia to visit my parents. I knew that my family would bring up the question: Why wasn’t I in a relationship? The truth is I didn’t really have an explanation nor do I …
AvatarVOGUE.COMAvatarAvatarFloating Away Forever: A Creek, My Husband, and MeVOGUE.COM - By Katharine Smyth Illustration by Katrien De Blauwer“It is the season of Anxiously Watching The Creek,” you wrote in one of the letters that drew me to Montana, “a creek that flows through my backyard and is starting now, in May, to run high and fast.” Years earlier, you added, it had come perilously close to flooding your apartment, where you had …
AvatarVOGUE.COMAvatarAvatarWhat My May-December Relationship Taught Me About LoveVOGUE.COM - By Tom Rasmussen Illustration by Katrien De BlauwerAfter I lost my virginity I went on what could be described as a sex rampage. There weren’t many gay people in my small hometown, and so, with the help of Grindr and the local gym parking lot, I found a way to meet with other gay people that were evidently on a similar kind of journey. And so, I …
AvatarVOGUE.COMAvatarAvatarShock, Horror: A Love Letter to “Manly” MenVOGUE.COM - By Karley Sciortino Illustration by Katrien De BlauwerAlmost a year ago, I broke up with my boyfriend of four-and-a-half years. I was 36. It was mutual, and as loving as it could be, but it’s always scary to get out of a relationship. Ya know, because of the whole “Am I going to die alone?” issue. I had two main anxieties about being single. One was my …
AvatarVOGUE.COMAvatarAvatarThe Voodoo Priestess, My Womb, and MeVOGUE.COM - By Tory Henwood HoenLove Stories is a series about love in all its forms, with new essays appearing until Valentine’s Day. On my last morning in New Orleans, having hit the major sights and eaten the requisite beignets, I decided to visit a voodoo priestess. I had come to the city with a friend, having recently broken …
AvatarVOGUE.COMAvatarAvatarI Don't Know Who Needs to Hear This, But: You Will 100% Move On from Your ExVOGUE.COM - By Raven SmithLove Stories is a series about love in all its forms, with new essays appearing until Valentine’s Day. I’ve just put to bed a book about the men in my life, part of which meant excavating years-old relationships, working out where they went wrong. (Not to totally spoil the ending but today I’m …