Elizabeth Laura Nelson

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…

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

We anxiety sufferers are good at covering up how we’re really feeling. You are not alone.

Can’t calm down, won’t calm down.

This isn’t Sleeping Beauty. There’s no prince coming to rescue you. What relationship beliefs are standing in your way?

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.

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

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

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!

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