Elizabeth Laura Nelson

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

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.

No regrets about having kids? Maybe it’s time we all came clean.

Can’t calm down, won’t calm down.

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

My whole life, people have been telling me I’m “too much." It's BS.

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?

Are you drowning in negativity?

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