Elizabeth Laura Nelson

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.

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

Is it hard for you to accept help when you need it?

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

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.

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

No energy at 3PM? The mid-afternoon slump is a well-known phenomenon.

Are you drowning in negativity?

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…