Elizabeth Laura Nelson

Is it hard for you to accept help when you need it?

Parents — we’re the worst.

If your partner is still connected to his horrible ex in a way neither of you can do anything about, here are six ways to cope.

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

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.

Would you really rather not get older?

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

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

The only thing worse than being in a bad mood, is dealing with someone else’s bad mood.