Elizabeth Laura Nelson

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

Can’t calm down, won’t calm down.

Being a parent isn’t everything.

This is your brain on love. And it’s scary.

How do you deal with feeling lonely; are you okay with having alone time?

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.

Sexless marriage? Couples therapists estimate that around 20 percent of marriages are sexless. Don’t give up without giving these ideas a try.

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