Elizabeth Laura Nelson

True Scorpio nature: We like it when people are afraid of us. They should be afraid. Here 19 other ways you know you're a Scorpio!

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.

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

Clutter is a distraction, causing you to lose focus and get sidetracked, and it also signals your brain to feel that your work is never done.

Would you really rather not get older?

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

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.

Marriage isn’t a game. But playing one can actually help strengthen it. So, game on!

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