Elizabeth Laura Nelson

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

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.

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

The "comfort relationship": Sometimes we get comfortable being uncomfortable.

How far should love go?

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…

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

This is your brain on love. And it’s scary.

Sometimes you have to let go of your dreams. As the years go by, you come to the realization that who you are now is pretty much who you’ll be forever.