Get Featured!
Consider this your invitation. You do not have to be a writer, and you do not need the perfect words. You only have to be willing to be honest about your love, your life, or the season you are in. Being featured is free. Share your story, and if it speaks to us, we tell it with you at no cost. Prefer not to wait to be chosen? There is a way to skip the line and be featured sooner. Yes, that one includes a fee, and the details are on the form. All we ask is that you bring three clear, high-quality photos, so you look and feel your best. Your phone is perfect. Good light, clear focus, and you are ready to shine.
RELATIONSHIPS
For couples who have been in it for the long run and know the unglamorous work nobody posts about. How they stayed, the boring middle years, the season they almost lost it, and still wanting each other after all this time.
For any couple whose love crosses a line other people notice, whether that is race, culture, faith, language, distance, or being a same-sex couple. It covers what the world says from the outside, the family conversations, building one life out of two worlds, and loving across miles that were not your choice. If your love makes other people comment, this is your place.
Every couple has a story worth telling. Share yours, from how you met to how you make it work.
For people starting over after loss or divorce. What they brought with them, beginning again after losing someone, the moment they thought they were done, and blending two lives, homes, and families into one. For the person who did not expect to be here again and is here anyway.
For the couples who nearly walked away and rebuilt anyway. The affair, the separation, the season they almost called it, and the long road back to each other. It is about what almost ended it, what made them stay or come back when leaving would have been easier, and the kind of love that only survival can teach. For the ones who almost didn't, and did.
SINGLES
For the ones who are single on purpose and mean it. Not between relationships, not waiting to be picked. The real story of choosing this life, dating while already whole, desire on your own terms, and being done with the settling down question.
A quick, feel-good spotlight on you. Any single, any reason. Share who you are, what you love, and what you want, or do not want, at all.
REAL TALK
An open invitation for Black women to speak on love, relationships, and life in their own voice, across the full range of what they carry and what they have lived. Their truth, told the way they want to tell it.
An open invitation for Black men to speak on love, relationships, and life in their own voice, with real room to say what usually goes unsaid. Their truth, told the way they want to tell it.
For the love that is not romantic but still runs deep. Friendships that lasted decades, chosen family, the people who showed up in the season you needed them, and the complicated ones you love hardest. This is community and belonging, the love that holds a life together.
The tender one. For rebuilding desire and intimacy after a body changed, after being hurt, after learning your own body for the first time, or moving through a new season like menopause, aging, or medication. Every question is optional, and it carries a gentle safety line so no one has to answer more than they want to.
For the person who walked away. The day they knew, what everybody said, what leaving saved, and rebuilding trust and self on the other side. This one carries a safety line up top for anyone still in an unsafe situation, pointing them to reach out directly instead of filling it out.
For families built on purpose rather than by default. Step-parents, bonus parents, blended households, and co-parents. It gives room to the love that did not come easy, the part where two worlds became one house, and how they made it work anyway. It is about the crew, the names the kids use, and what nobody warns you about.
For people who put God at the center of their relationship and built their love from there. It invites the real story of how faith shapes the way they love, pray, forgive, and stay, not the polished church answer. It works for an individual or a couple, so someone can answer solo or the two of them can answer together
MORE WAYS TO BE PART OF IT
Send a song to somebody who matters, with a message straight from the heart. We put the dedication where the whole room can hear it.
Got a story, a perspective, or a truth worth hearing? Come sit down with LaTonya MeChelle on The Love and Happiness Talk Show.
Put your business, book, or brand in front of readers who love love. Tell us what you are promoting and we will find it a home in the magazine.