Modern love : 50 true and extraordinary tales of desire, deceit and devotion

Pt. I. Seeking : r we d8ing? (No? No? No? Let me read between the lines / Steve Friedman

Traveling the too-much-information highway / Heather L. Hunter

A Prince Charming for the prom (not ever after, though) / Frank Paiva

R we d8ing? / Sandra Barron

Who's that lady in the bedroom, Daddy? / Trey Ellis

I seemed plucky and game, even to myself / Mindy Hung

Misery loves fried chicken, too / Mark McDevitt

So he looked like Dad. It was just dinner, right? / Abby Sher

Like new! (with a few broken parts) / Irene Sherlock)

pt. II. Finding : I think I love you (Loved and lost? It's okay, especially if you win / Veronica Chambers

Hear the wedding march often enough, you fall in step / Larry Smith

Two men, baby on the way, and me / Rebecca Eckler

The third half of a couple / Howie Kahn

Elvis and my husband have left the building / Liza Monroy

Our bodies, our imaginations / Jean Braithwaite

Three men and a woman / Stephen Elliott

A go-between gets going / Kirsten Allen Major)

pt. III. Breeding : what to expect that you're least expecting (DJ's homeless mommy / Dan Savage

His genes hold gifts. Mine carry risk / Bonnie J. Rough

Online images open a heart, then a home / Debora Spar

Sending a lost boy to the wilderness to find himself / Richard Reiss

Looking for love at the sperm bank / Linda Dackman

Now I need a place to hide away / Ann Hood

The new nanny diaries are online / Helaine Olen

Something like motherhood / Carolyn Megan

Adolescence, without a roadmap / Claire Scovell LaZebnik)

pt. IV. Staying : the ties that bind (A body scarred, a marriage healed / Autumn Stephens

Truly, madly, guiltily / Ayelet Waldman

Back from the front, with honor, a warrior's truth / Helen Gerhardt

Sleeping with the guitar player / Jean Hanff Korelitz

Out from under the influence / Kevin Cahillane

Jill and Jill live on the hill, but one must boil the water / Tzivia Gover

The day the house blew up / Ronald K. Fried

Two Decembers : loss and redemption / Anne Marie Feld)

pt. V. Leaving : the ties that fray (The chicken's in the oven, my husband's out the door / Theo Pauline Nestor

Witness to a wedding that wasn't / Jennie Yabroff

So handsome, so clever, so gone / Martha Moffett

A reincarnation, and just when I didn't need one / Robin Hemley

Losing custody of my hope / Katie Allison Granju

How could I tell him what I knew? How could i not? / Sara Pepitone

Paradise lost (domestic division) / Terry Martin Hekker

A leap of faith / Renee Watabe)