Elizabeth Laura Nelson

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

“Parenting” has become a competitive sport. But it’s kids who are losing. Let your kids screw up.

This isn’t Sleeping Beauty. There’s no prince coming to rescue you. What relationship beliefs are standing in your way?

Real self-care: Forget pedicures and bubble baths.

Can’t calm down, won’t calm down.

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.

Would you really rather not get older?

The "comfort relationship": Sometimes we get comfortable being uncomfortable.

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.

Is it hard for you to accept help when you need it?