Elizabeth Laura Nelson

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

If you constantly find that you’re rubbing people the wrong way, take a look at this list and consider if you’re doing any of the following seven things.

How do you deal with feeling lonely; are you okay with having alone time?

Are you drowning in negativity?

Parents — we’re the worst.

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.

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

Yes, a lot of parents are assholes. But you know what? A lot of people are assholes; some of them happen to have kids, some don’t. I can’t speak for all parents, and I wouldn’t want to try. But speaking as one particular person with kids, here’s what I wish my childfree friends would understand…

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