Elizabeth Laura Nelson

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

Never ask a Libra where they want to go for dinner.

Real self-care: Forget pedicures and bubble baths.

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.

Does chronic anxiety ever make you feel like a flake?

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

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.

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

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…