Elizabeth Laura Nelson

Finding gratitude in the wake of a bad breakup isn’t easy. Here are a few things to focus on.

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

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

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

Does chronic anxiety ever make you feel like a flake?

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

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.

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.

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

Are you drowning in negativity?