Intimacy, Emotional Baggage, Relationship Longevity, and More – Esther Perel on The Tim Ferriss Show
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Intimacy, Emotional Baggage, Relationship Longevity, and More – Esther Perel on The Tim Ferriss Show
Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity. At the same time, we expect our committed relationships to be romantic as well as emotionally and sexually fulfilling. Is it any wonder that so many relationships crumble under the weight of it all?
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Modern relationships are cauldrons of contradictory longings: safety and excitement, grounding and transcendence, the comfort of love and the heat of passion. We want it all, and we want it with one person. Reconciling the domestic and the erotic is a delicate balancing act that we achieve intermittently at best. It requires knowing your partner wh... See more
Esther Perel • Mating in Captivity
What makes sustaining desire over time so difficult is that it requires reconciling two opposing forces: freedom and commitment.
Esther Perel • Mating in Captivity
Renowned therapist Esther Perel also speaks of the chasm between our wish for security and our hunger for excitement. The erotic equation seems to be the answer to our problems, but she acknowledges that knowing this is one thing, while what do we do about it is a whole other dynamic. Through this book we will come back to this quandary in many way
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