Elizabeth Laura Nelson

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

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

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

How far should love go?

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.

Go ahead. Give in to the misery.

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

No regrets about having kids? Maybe it’s time we all came clean.

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.