Elizabeth Laura Nelson

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

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.

Real self-care: Forget pedicures and bubble baths.

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.

If your partner is still connected to his horrible ex in a way neither of you can do anything about, here are six ways to cope.

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.

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

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