Elizabeth Laura Nelson

Real self-care: Forget pedicures and bubble baths.

Honesty is supposed to be the cornerstone of a healthy relationship, and lying, an automatic dealbreaker. But should it be?

Is it possible that talking about your relationship less could actually be the key to making it better? Sometimes, stop talking and just let yourselves be.

The elephant in the room is my mental illness. Do my anxiety and depression make me unworthy of love?

Can’t calm down, won’t calm down.

If you have these four types of friends in your life, they could literally be making you sick. Consider yourself warned and remove these toxic friends!

Would you really rather not get older?

In a marriage, should you really feel lonely that much of the time? And if so, then how lonely is too lonely?

Finding gratitude in the wake of a bad breakup isn’t easy. Here are a few things to focus on.

As a person who writes about relationships for a living, I might be one of the people least in need of all this well-meaning advice, which usually amounts to clichés and can even veer into the territory of outright insults. What I need – what most of us need – is for people to hear me, and to trust me.