Elizabeth Laura Nelson

Researchers say that the average relationship hits the ‘comfort zone’ phase after 11 months and 24 days.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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