Elizabeth Laura Nelson

Would you really rather not get older?

My whole life, people have been telling me I’m “too much." It's BS.

Real self-care: Forget pedicures and bubble baths.

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

Sometimes you have to let go of your dreams. As the years go by, you come to the realization that who you are now is pretty much who you’ll be forever.

How far should love go?

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.

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.