Love Essays

Where It Started

My parents’ analog-era, long distance love story

This essay is for you if you want to believe in love again

What Almost Was

A Greek love story that only lived in one place & time

This essay is for you if you want to be whisked away into a full blown romance

A fleeting encounter in Florence & the grief of a chance not taken

This essay is for you if you’re in the mood for yearning

Breaking two years of silence & finding out he'd been holding onto the good the whole time

This essay is for you if your gut has ever disagreed with the story you were telling yourself

What I Had To Unlearn First

On the relationships we neglect & the ones we tend back to life

This essay is for you if you've ever wondered whether something could still grow if you started paying attention again

On trading people-pleasing & self-abandonment for the practice of choosing yourself

This essay is for you if love has let you down & you want to take your power back

On being seen & valued for who you are, not who you could be to someone else

This essay is for you if you want love but are also terrified of getting hurt again

Letting a compliment land instead of handing it right back

This essay is for you if you've ever deflected kindness before it had the chance to settle

What’s Still Ahead

Rebuilding what love means, from the ground up

This essay is for you if you've done the healing work & still feel a little lost

Recognizing quiet, easy love through the glimpses you've already had

This essay is for you if you want proof that love exists in the little things too

An imagined future — the kind of love that never asks you to shrink

This essay is for you if you're finally ready to picture what easy love might feel like