Elizabeth Laura Nelson

Would you really rather not get older?

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

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

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?

Go ahead. Give in to the misery.

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

The problem with people pleasing: You’re trying so hard to be good. So how come you feel so bad?

Attracted to the wrong people? Believe it or not, this is actually a good thing.