Elizabeth Laura Nelson

“Parenting” has become a competitive sport. But it’s kids who are losing. Let your kids screw up.

We anxiety sufferers are good at covering up how we’re really feeling. You are not alone.

Does chronic anxiety ever make you feel like a flake?

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

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

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

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.

If you have these four types of friends in your life, they could literally be making you sick. Consider yourself warned and remove these toxic friends!

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.

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