Love Stories

Love Stories is a series about love in all its forms, with 1 new essay appearing each day for the first 2 weeks of February.

Love Story: How George Michael, a Buddhist Monk, and a Stripper Saved My Life
VOGUE.COM - Jason Sheeler
“I have a date tonight,” I wrote in my journal during the winter of 2004. “Can’t wait to dance.” Twenty minutes before he’s scheduled to knock on my door, I click the wheel of my iPod, press play on George
February 14
Love Yourself, Not the Path Not Taken
VOGUE.COM - Reema Zaman
Slicing through the mad rush of bodies on the subway platform at Times Square, there you are. Dressed in a sharply cut navy suit, trim and towering, you’ve disembarked from the shuttle and are now walking
February 13
Sorry, Marie Kondo—I Love Mess!
VOGUE.COM - Liana Satenstein
My desk is by far the messiest in my office. I know what you’re thinking—you have an idea of what this office looks like, but mine is not a pretty mess. You know that epic Vogue photo of Kate Moss from
February 12
Dating in New York: After 10 Years, This Is What I’ve Learned
VOGUE.COM - Chioma Nnadi
I should have known the date was going to be a disaster when he suggested we meet in Midtown. “Drinks by Penn Station—really?!” scoffed my friend Femi. In those days we used to say we got a nosebleed we
February 11
Delete Your Account
VOGUE.COM - Bridget Read
I recently imagined a conversation between famed declutter-er Marie Kondo and the notoriously disorganized poet Elizabeth Bishop. “Do they spark joy?” Kondo would ask, while Bishop, as instructed, considered
February 10
Love Stories
A Sad Story
VOGUE.COM - Liana Finck
Love Stories is a series about love in all its forms, with one new essay appearing each day until Valentine’s Day.
February 9
Worst Date Stories: An Unexpected Connection Leads to An Even More Unexpected Reveal
VOGUE.COM - Maya Singer
How do you tell the story of a strange night? I've been dining out on one particular anecdote for years—I’ve got my cues down, know when to hum the Psycho theme and how to land my punch line. In this I
February 8
I Love New York, for Better or Worse
VOGUE.COM - Lucie Zhang
Unless you’re one of the blessed few born and/or raised in New York City, you have probably been faced with the existential question: When do you become a real New Yorker? The qualifications vary depending
February 7
After Divorce, Floating Another Chance at Love
VOGUE.COM - Tara Conklin
When I was 45 and recently separated from my husband, I fell in love with a man who lived on a boat. It was not a sailboat or a houseboat. It was a motorized cruiser with a small kitchen, a table and a
February 6
Difficult Women: Loving Them, Writing Them, Learning To Be Them
VOGUE.COM - Lucy Foley
Difficult women answer back. Difficult women make themselves heard. They don’t back down. They’re loud. They challenge the status quo. They’re not all that easily pleased. They hustle. They’re the ones
February 5
I Hated My Boyfriend’s Headband, Then I Married Him
VOGUE.COM - Liz McDaniel
My husband wears a headband almost all of the time. He’ll wear one in the airport or to brunch in the West Village. He sometimes wears one to bed. It’s a simple sweatband, cotton and stretchy. Think Richie
February 4
Culture
Can a Vacation Romance Last? - Vogue
VOGUE.COM
A handsome stranger, a romantic setting, none of the obligations of home—and home a time zone or a short flight away—who among us hasn’t considered the possibilities? On this week’s Vogue Love Stories
Feb 28, 2018
Smoking
How to Stop Smoking? Get a Good Enough Reason to Quit
VOGUE.COM
Overcoming addiction is never easy. But it can be made easier. At least, that’s what Vogue.com’s Culture Editor Alessandra Codinha realized in her 2016 Vogue Love Story, “My Chemical Romance.” In this
Feb 21, 2018
Culture
Love and Chemo: The Vogue Podcast
VOGUE.COM
There are a lot of trite ways of stating what to most of us is an obvious truth, but none as matter-of-fact as this: Life has a way of throwing us curveballs, and often they come when we least expect For
Feb 14, 2018
Why I Haven’t Been on a Date Since Trump Was Elected
VOGUE.COM - Bridget Read
On election night 2016, I was texting a boy. He was a man, technically. Biologically and chronologically. But it feels imprecise to apply the word to the totality of our few interactions. “Boy” suits better.
Feb 14, 2018
Culture
How UVA Basketball Brought My Husband and Me Closer Together
VOGUE.COM
When it comes to the one you love, how important are shared interests? After several years of marriage—and two young children—who has time for hobbies anyway? Can watching sports actually improve your
Feb 13, 2018
A Modern Love Story - Vogue
VOGUE.COM - Kaitlin Phillips
When I was 18, my dad was outed as a serial cheater, and my mother fashioned into a martyr of a cast many generations out of date. This took all of two minutes, when she called me at boarding school to
Feb 13, 2018
Can You Fall in Love With Someone You Met Online?
VOGUE.COM - Chioma Nnadi
Troy and I were supposed to have been introduced in person, the old-fashioned way. Instead, the night his tour bus rolled into town, when our mutual friend Crystal had insisted on playing matchmaker, gotten
Feb 12, 2018
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Nose
VOGUE.COM - Patricia Garcia
I’m seven months pregnant and looking at a 3-D black and white sonogram that is supposed to reveal some clue about my future daughter’s face. I squint and turn the image upside down and try to decipher
Feb 2, 2018
How Binge-Watching Outlander Improved My Marriage
VOGUE.COM - Alexandra Macon
It all started at a dinner party at my friends Ann and George’s house on Long Island. They were hosting a couple, Sarah and John, who were visiting from down south for the weekend, and they’d invited over
Feb 11, 2018
American Revolution
Learning to Love Across the Cultural Divide - Vogue
VOGUE.COM - Lucie Zhang
My mom’s first impression of America was that she had reached the end of the world. Flying from Shanghai, the only city she had ever known, into Albuquerque, New Mexico, was like landing on another planet.
Feb 10, 2018
Searching for Each Other in a Sea of Words
VOGUE.COM - Meryl Fontek
Ninety-two. That’s how many emails we sent to each other over the course of our eight-month relationship, all with links to articles we found interesting and wanted to share, hoping one of us would find
Feb 8, 2018
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
Kate the Great
VOGUE.COM - Michelle Ruiz
On January 9, 1982, Kate Middleton was born in Reading, England. Also on January 9, 1982, some 3,400 miles across the Atlantic Ocean, I was born in a town with absolutely no medieval abbeys to speak of:
Feb 9, 2018
Culture
Introducing Vogue Love Stories, the Podcast
VOGUE.COM
Time to dust off your candy hearts and break out the doily-edged cards; it’s that time of the year again! Vogue’s annual Love Stories series has returned, and with it, a brand new way to experience personal
Feb 7, 2018
Is Technology Ruining Our Lives? Not for My Group Chat - Vogue
VOGUE.COM - Tariro Mzezewa
There’s a spoken word poem by Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye called “When Love Arrives” that describes the difficulty of finding, keeping, letting go of, and learning to be open to love. I’ve listened to a recording
Feb 7, 2018
Learning to Commit, One Step at a Time
VOGUE.COM - Alessandra Codinha
I recently learned that there is a hot cop in my office building. Not in the building, exactly; he works in the mall attached to it. I saw him for the first time the other day, leaning over the balcony,
Feb 6, 2018
My Sister’s Keeper
VOGUE.COM - Emily Farra
I’ve never bought a lottery ticket, and I once spent an entire week in Las Vegas without so much as pulling the lever of a slot machine. But maybe I should have given it a go, because I’ve been lucky birth—make
Feb 5, 2018
Buffalo, New York: The One That Got Away
VOGUE.COM - Kirby Marzec
Buffalo, New York, is a sports city with a drinking problem. It’s also a drinking city with a sports problem. To me, it’s just a city with a problem. I lived there for 18 adolescent years, and for every
Feb 4, 2018
Culture
Finding Love in the Mass General Hospital Cafeteria
VOGUE.COM - Liana Satenstein
My mom has always had a thing for cafeteria food. It’s the simple, retro dishes that really make her happy. Plates of radiation yellow mac ’n cheese. Canned sweet corn. Plain boiled carrots. Green beans
Feb 3, 2018