故事互相独立，却贯穿一个主题：爱。有些故事非比寻常，而另一些则贴近家庭。有些揭示了科技如何改变约会的过程；另一些则是探索那些不断寻找真爱所经历的挣扎。
中年婚姻的考验、为人父母的压力、失去亲人（孩子、配偶、父母、朋友），个中的酸甜苦辣同样触及人心。

DANIEL JONES has edited the "Modern Love" column in theNew York Times since its inception in 2004. His books in-clude Love Illuminated: Exploring Life's Most MystifyingSubject (with the Help of SO, O00 Strangers), The Bastard onthe Couch, and the novel After Lucy. Jones appears weeklyon the Modern Love podcast and is a consulting producerfor Amazon Studios' show Modern Love. He lives in North-ampton, Massachusetts, and New York City.

INTRODUCTION BY DANIEL JONES
SOMEWHERE OUT THERE
Single, Unemployed, and Suddenly Myself
Marisa Lascher
Uh, Honey, That's Not Your Line
Matteson Perry
I Seemed Plucky and Game, Even to Myself
Mindy Hung
At the Hospital, an Interlude of Clarity
Brian Gittis
The Five Stages of Ghosting Grief
Rachel Fields
Misery Loves Fried Chicken, Too
Mark McDevitt
So He Looked Like Dad. It Was Just Dinner,Right?
Abby Sher
No? No? No? Let Me Read between the Lines
Steve Friedman
During a Night of Casual Sex, Urgent Messages Go Unanswered
Andrew Rannells
For Best Hookup Results, Use Your Words, OK?
Gabrielle Ulubay
I THINK I LOVE YOU
When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist
Deborah Copaken
Sleeping with the Guitar Player
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Hear That Wedding March Often Enough,You Fall in Step
Larry Smith
The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap
Eve Pell
Loved and Lost? It's OK, Especially if You Win
Veronica Chambers
Single, and Surrounded by a Wall of Men
Susan M. Gelles
When Eve and Eve Bit the Apple
Kristen Scharold
Would My Heart Outrun Its Pursuer?
Gary Presley
Truly, Madly, Guiltily
Ayelet Waldman
Who's That Lady in the Bedroom, Daddy?
Trey Ellis
You May Want to Marry My Husband
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
HOLDING ON THROUGH THE CURVES
A Body Scarred, a Marriage Healed
Autumn Stephens
DJ's Homeless Mommy
Dan Savage
Now I Need a Place to Hide Away
Ann Hood
Just Holding on through the Curves
Cris Beam
Rallying to Keep the Game Alive
Ann Leary
Out from under the Influence
Kevin Cahillane
The Chicken's in the Oven, My Husband's out the Door
Theo Pauline Nestor
Take Me As I Am, Whoever I Am
Terri Cheney
Adolescence, without a Roadmap
Claire Scovell LaZebnik
My Husband Is Now My Wife
Diane Daniel
FAMILY MATTERS
Something Like Motherhood
Carolyn Megan
First I Met My Children, Then My
Girlfriend. They're Related.
Aaron Long
When Mr. Reliable Becomes Mr. Needy
Katherine Tanney
My First Lesson in Motherhood
Elizabeth Fitzsimons
Two Men, Baby on the Way, and Me
Rebecca Eckler
When Morn Is on the Scent, and Right
Liza Monroy
Two Decembers: Loss and Redemption
Anne Marie Feld
Beyond Divorce and Even Death,a Promise Kept
Jennifer Just
The Third Half of a Couple
Howie Kahn
When I Was Sixteen, I Placed Him forAdoption. Could We Try Again?
Meredith Hall
When the Doorman Is Your Main Man
Julie Margaret Hogben
PERMISSIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS