Elizabeth Laura Nelson

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

Attracted to the wrong people? Believe it or not, this is actually a good thing.

Go ahead. Give in to the misery.

How far should love go?

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

Does chronic anxiety ever make you feel like a flake?

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.

Real self-care: Forget pedicures and bubble baths.

If your partner is still connected to his horrible ex in a way neither of you can do anything about, here are six ways to cope.