Elizabeth Laura Nelson

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

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

My anxiety doesn’t mean I can’t be a good parent. In fact, it makes me a better one.

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

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

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.

Being a parent isn’t everything.

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

If you have these four types of friends in your life, they could literally be making you sick. Consider yourself warned and remove these toxic friends!

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.