In defense of a love contract
Nov 6 · 3 min read

It was July 2017. I had been dating my then-boyfriend (now fiancé) Aldo for about a year and a half. We didn’t live together at the time, but were pretty serious, with Aldo visiting me every weekend. On a normal July day, a seemingly nondescript article found its way into my inbox.
It was an article from the New York Times called “To Stay in Love, Sign on the Dotted Line,” an article about a love contract. I…

