Elizabeth Laura Nelson

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

Yes, a lot of parents are assholes. But you know what? A lot of people are assholes; some of them happen to have kids, some don’t. I can’t speak for all parents, and I wouldn’t want to try. But speaking as one particular person with kids, here’s what I wish my childfree friends would understand…