Sarah Sentilles and God are not getting back together anytime soon.

Amanda Miller tries to stomach suddenly letting go, but it feels like trying to choose a last supper, and she isn’t ready to clean her plate, wash up, and let go.

Every relationship goes through phases. This one went through: tears, sex, soup, surprise. The email at the end is the actual email the author received without any prior fight or hint of anything be wrong.

Once upon a time, before Rachel was a wife and a mother and before she was pushing forty, she was a young girl in her twenties who thought she knew about love. She was mistaken.

In the months immediately following 9/11, singles across the nation felt the urge to merge. Determined to sally forth after the break-up of a three-year relationship, Alison Aucoin agreed to try speed dating. How could she possibly know that the search for her soul mate would bring encounters with a Bukowski-inspired plumber, a nerdy chain-restaurant connoisseur, a fellow wearing Mary Tyler Moore’s eyelashes, a one-eyed racist anti-Semite, and a rodeo clown?

You haven’t been dumped until you’ve been dumped in a cow suit.

An open letter to Julie, the girl who dumped me right after the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded: Dear Julie, We dated briefly in the fifth grade, and on January 28, 1986, you broke up with me. We were sitting in the Presentation Area, adjacent the library, and we had just finished watching the Space Shuttle [...]

A phoenix rises from the ashes of a once smoldering relationship.