Yavorov's other great passion was writing love poetry to the two women with whom he had obsessive affairs. The first was Mina Todorova, teenage daughter of Petko Todorov, a fellow-member of the Misal circle. Despite being an ardent admirer of Yavorov's writings, Todorov was horrified by the idea of having a penniless revolutionary poet as a son-in-law. Banned from seeing her, Yavorov wrote Mina love letters in verse, offering them to Misal for publication at the same time. Mina died of tuberculosis in 1910, and it was at her graveside in Paris that Yavorov struck up a friendship with the next object of his affections, Lora Karavelova. The daughter of former Prime Minister Petko Karavelov (and niece of the Bulgarian revolutionary Lyuben Karavelov), Lora was one of Sofia's most modern, emancipated women, and she and Yavorov soon became the city's favourite intellectual couple. They married almost immediately, but Lora found Yavorov - already wed to Macedonia and his own writing - a distant, difficult companion. By early 1913 Lora was convinced (probably without reason) that Yavorov was having an affair with Dora Konova, the fiancee of a friend. They argued, and Lora threatened to shoot herself. Whether intentionally or not, the gun went off. Yavorov was tried for her murder - and speedily acquitted, despite the popular feeling that he was the guilty party. Abandoned by his friends and living in extreme poverty, Yavorov then turned a gun on himself, but at the first attempt lost only his eyesight. A few months later, at his second attempt, he succeeded in taking his life.