Elizabeth Laura Nelson

My whole life, people have been telling me I’m “too much." It's BS.

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.

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

Honesty is supposed to be the cornerstone of a healthy relationship, and lying, an automatic dealbreaker. But should it be?

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?

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

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

How far should love go?

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.