Elizabeth Laura Nelson

Are you drowning in negativity?

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

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

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.

Clutter is a distraction, causing you to lose focus and get sidetracked, and it also signals your brain to feel that your work is never done.

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

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

Sexless marriage? Couples therapists estimate that around 20 percent of marriages are sexless. Don’t give up without giving these ideas a try.

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.

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