Elizabeth Laura Nelson

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

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.

A low libido doesn’t have to be a clinically diagnosable condition in order for it to be a problem.

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.

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

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

Being a parent isn’t everything.

We anxiety sufferers are good at covering up how we’re really feeling. You are not alone.

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.

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