They shared their views on how men should treat women, they discussed what it would feel like to meet the person you love, and they even simulated an engagement and wedding celebration.

In a marriage class, they learned about love. There was a cooking class, taught by a former chef. “Now my world was Guantánamo.”For a period during his 14 years there, he and his fellow detainees organized informal classes for one another. Growing up in a tiny village in the mountains of Yemen, “I didn’t know much about the world,” he said. Mansoor Adayfi was only 19 when he arrived at the prison camp at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

She speaks with Laura Pitcher, a contributing writer for The New York Times, about how people are manifesting their ideal partners - and why the spiritual practice is so appealing to Gen Z.Hey, Modern Love listeners: What’s the most unusual place you have ever gone on a date? Maybe you crossed the Atlantic Ocean on a cargo ship, or you wound up at a restaurant after hours. Today, we share her story about how she found “the one.” Then, our host, Anna Martin, discusses a trend that is all over TikTok: romantic manifestation. While she felt pressure from her family and her culture to be with a Pakistani boy, the movie opened up her lanes of attraction - from white boys to, eventually, “anything but brown men.”As Meher grew older, though, her thinking started to shift. Watching the main character, an Indian woman who looked like her, kiss her white soccer coach, she saw a vision of her own romantic future. When Meher Ahmad first saw the movie “Bend It Like Beckham” as a young girl, she was transfixed. We’re taking a little break, but we’ll be back in the fall with a whole new lineup of stories. Judah reflects on what he remembers about his father - and the impact of the powerful choice his mother made years ago.This is our last episode of the summer. Then, our host, Anna Martin, checks in with Judah, who is now 16. Victoria had to make a complicated decision: to forgive her ex and allow him into Judah’s life, or to close the door on Judah’s relationship with his father, possibly forever. On our season finale, we listen to Victoria’s story about forgiveness. He had been diagnosed with a cancer that had metastasized to his bones, and he wanted to spend the time he had left with Judah, their young son. He “decided that he couldn’t be married anymore, not to me, he said, and probably not to anyone,” Victoria wrote in her Modern Love essay.A couple of years later, while they were living many miles apart, he reached out to her with a request. When Victoria Rosner was seven months pregnant, her husband filed for divorce.

Tattoos & Teacups by Anna Martin