Elizabeth Laura Nelson

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

Is it possible that talking about your relationship less could actually be the key to making it better? Sometimes, stop talking and just let yourselves be.

True Scorpio nature: We like it when people are afraid of us. They should be afraid. Here 19 other ways you know you're a Scorpio!

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.

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.

The only thing worse than being in a bad mood, is dealing with someone else’s bad mood.

In a marriage, should you really feel lonely that much of the time? And if so, then how lonely is too lonely?

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

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.

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