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Seven ways to love better

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  1. TreeFiddyFiddy
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    After twenty years of his beloved Modern Love column in the New York Times, editor Daniel Jones shares with us the seven most important lessons he's learned about love from nearly 200,000 submissions.

    After twenty years of his beloved Modern Love column in the New York Times, editor Daniel Jones shares with us the seven most important lessons he's learned about love from nearly 200,000 submissions.

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  2. slashtab
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    Wow! Thanks for sharing, I would have missed this. This made me tear up too.

    Wow! Thanks for sharing, I would have missed this.

    Chris Huntington, in his essay, “Learning to Measure Time in Love and Loss,” writes about a having a similar routine with his son, with the twist that every night they also share their best and worst moments of the day. One night, preoccupied with his litany of worries, Chris realizes something is missing, and says, “We forgot to do best and worst moments. What was your best moment of the day?”

    “This is, Daddy,” his son says, nudging his chin into his father’s shoulder. “This is.”

    Tears sprung from my eyes the first time I read that line, and I never forgot its lesson: Be in the moment.

    This made me tear up too.

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