Elizabeth Laura Nelson

“Parenting” has become a competitive sport. But it’s kids who are losing. Let your kids screw up.

Does chronic anxiety ever make you feel like a flake?

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.

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

How far should love go?

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

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

The "comfort relationship": Sometimes we get comfortable being uncomfortable.

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