Love Letter: A Moment of Metamorphosis

Her husband promised to love her pain away. Somehow, he made the impossible, possible.

“I always wrote off my husband’s promises to protect me in my moments of despair because I assumed he meant he was prepared to do so physically, an engagement with masculinity that I dislike. But I had not understood his meaning.”

In this week’s breathtaking Modern Love essay, “Pinned Under the Bodies of Men,” Jerrine Tan explores the transformative power of love — how it can, sometimes, make the impossible, possible.

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