Elizabeth Laura Nelson

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.

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

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.

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

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

We’ve probably all heard it a million times: relationships are hard work.

Go ahead. Give in to the misery.

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.

Finding gratitude in the wake of a bad breakup isn’t easy. Here are a few things to focus on.