Elizabeth Laura Nelson

Does chronic anxiety ever make you feel like a flake?

Reading in bed together, while it might not be a major milestone — like marriage or having children — truly is a significant event in a relationship.

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.

Yes, a lot of parents are assholes. But you know what? A lot of people are assholes; some of them happen to have kids, some don’t. I can’t speak for all parents, and I wouldn’t want to try. But speaking as one particular person with kids, here’s what I wish my childfree friends would understand…

The only thing worse than being in a bad mood, is dealing with someone else’s bad mood.

If your partner is still connected to his horrible ex in a way neither of you can do anything about, here are six ways to cope.

Pretending you don’t have feelings doesn’t pay off.

Although research is clear we should not come to work sick, there’s still a stigma associated with admitting you’re too ill to go to work.

If you constantly find that you’re rubbing people the wrong way, take a look at this list and consider if you’re doing any of the following seven things.