Elizabeth Laura Nelson

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 you have these four types of friends in your life, they could literally be making you sick. Consider yourself warned and remove these toxic friends!

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

Can’t calm down, won’t calm down.

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!

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.

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

Pretending you don’t have feelings doesn’t pay off.

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