Elizabeth Laura Nelson

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.

Are you drowning in negativity?

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

Go ahead. Give in to the misery.

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

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

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.

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

If you constantly find that you’re rubbing people the wrong way, take a look at this list and consider if you’re doing any of the following seven things.