Elizabeth Laura Nelson

Can’t calm down, won’t calm down.

We’ve probably all heard it a million times: relationships are hard work.

Although research is clear we should not come to work sick, there’s still a stigma associated with admitting you’re too ill to go to work.

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.

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.

Parents — we’re the worst.

Go ahead. Give in to the misery.

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

Real self-care: Forget pedicures and bubble baths.