Elizabeth Laura Nelson

My whole life, people have been telling me I’m “too much." It's BS.

Researchers say that the average relationship hits the ‘comfort zone’ phase after 11 months and 24 days.

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.

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

This is your brain on love. And it’s scary.

Go ahead. Give in to the misery.

The thing is, when you fight with your partner, it’s your amygdala that takes over. It's the part of the brain that processes fear, and it’s powerful.

True Scorpio nature: We like it when people are afraid of us. They should be afraid. Here 19 other ways you know you're a Scorpio!

We’ve probably all heard it a million times: relationships are hard work.