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Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify‘I think what we did when we sent him away is we just delayed the inevitable. And the inevitable was very ugly.’Rick Reiss was scared for his teenage son, Gabriel. Gabe was struggling with depression and mood swings, and no amount of therapy or medication seemed to work.But when Gabe became violent, Rick wasn’t just scared for his son; he was scared of his son. Rick and his wife felt as if they had to do something drastic. So they made the decision to send Gabe to a wilderness therapy program.Nearly 18 years later, father and son talk about the decision that changed both of their lives and how their relationship has grown now that Gabe is an adult.You can read Rick’s original Modern Love essay, which came out in 2005, here.Modern Love is...

They knew it would be perilous, but Jinan Al Salya and her family decided to heed Israeli directions to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip and head south. They hadn’t gone far on Saturday, she said, when they came under fire.They fled their car before a shell hit it, sending it and their luggage up in flames, Ms. Al Salya, 20, said in a telephone interview. The family returned north on foot, walking between bloody bodies sprawled along the road, she said.“It was a horror situation,” she said. “I’m in total shock.” Ms. Al Salya said she believed the shell that hit the car had been fired by an Israeli tank; the Israeli military declined to comment on the incident.Despite intensifying Israeli ground operations, continued air and artillery strikes, a mounting death toll and a critical lack of re...

In 2017, when Karine Szegedi, a partner at Deloitte Switzerland, oversaw the company’s annual Swiss watch industry study, the hottest topics among brand executives were the strength of the Swiss franc, the Swiss Made label and smartwatches.At the time, sustainability wasn’t “even a conversation,” Ms. Szegedi said on a video call last month.Deloitte’s 2023 watch study, published in mid-October, said there had been a change: “Whereas in previous years brands have been investing in sustainability in response to external pressures — consumer behavior and considerations about brand image — our results this year show a positive shift in motivation. And it comes from within.”“Finally," Ms. Szegedi said, “the watch industry, or most of the larger players, have fully integrated sustainability into ...

The Israeli military announced that its forces had fully encircled Gaza City and were carrying out “a significant operation” in the Gaza Strip late Sunday, as the entire enclave was plunged into the same kind of widespread communications blackout that cut it off from the world during Israel’s initial ground invasion 10 days ago.“At this hour, we are carrying out a large attack on terrorist infrastructure both below and above ground,” Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military’s chief spokesman, said in a late-night briefing.Israel has described Gaza City, in the north of the enclave, as a center for Hamas’s military operations, and its encirclement of the city appeared aimed at cutting it off from the rest of the strip. “Essentially today there is a northern Gaza and a southern Gaza,” A...

Why don’t women’s clothes have more pockets? And when they do, why are they so small and useless? It’s like being short-sheeted. I cannot believe this is still going on in the 21st century. Please explain. — ShobaThe pocket problem is a perennial one, for good reason. The story of those — often, as you say, tiny — compartments is crammed to the brim with plot twists that involve sexism, racism, control, economic disparity and more. Who knew so many hot-button social issues could be contained in such a tiny space?Well, maybe Darwin. After all, pockets make evolutionary sense. In theory, the more necessities you can carry on your body, the more efficiently you can move through the world. As an article in The New York Times in 1899 read: If “Adam and Eve both began life without any pockets, i...

The U.S. secretary of state made the unannounced visits during a trip through the Middle East as he tries to contain the fallout from Israel’s war against Hamas.

The summer of 2023 was painted pink. The “Barbie” movie broke records at the box office and inspired “Barbiecore,” an aesthetic “made up primarily of hot pink, and similarly bold rosy hues like fuchsia and magenta,” according to a New York Times article about the rise of Barbie-inspired home décor. “Everything I buy is always a little bit Barbie-esque,” said a homeowner who had outfitted her backyard with a hot-pink aboveground pool and shimmery floats.Different “core” aesthetics, such as cottagecore (bucolic and breezy), normcore (suburban and antifashion) and darkroom-core (dim and moody), have had their moments — and been subjects of Times articles — over the past decade.But how did “core,” which may be derived from the Latin word “cor,” meaning heart, come to delineate aesthetic styles...