Elizabeth Laura Nelson

How do you deal with feeling lonely; are you okay with having alone time?

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.

No regrets about having kids? Maybe it’s time we all came clean.

Real self-care: Forget pedicures and bubble baths.

Attracted to the wrong people? Believe it or not, this is actually a good thing.

The problem with people pleasing: You’re trying so hard to be good. So how come you feel so bad?

Go ahead. Give in to the misery.

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

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.

Sometimes you have to let go of your dreams. As the years go by, you come to the realization that who you are now is pretty much who you’ll be forever.