Elizabeth Laura Nelson

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

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

Go ahead. Give in to the misery.

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

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

Parents — we’re the worst.

No energy at 3PM? The mid-afternoon slump is a well-known phenomenon.

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

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.

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