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Esther Perel
open.spotify.com“In the west today most people are going to have two or three marriages, two or three committed relationships in their adult life. It’s just that some of us are going to do it with the same person.”
– Esther Perel
Esther Perel on the Difference Between Sexuality and Eroticism | Big Think
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On anxiety or curiosity as responses to a partner's 'other'-ness
I mean, faced with the unknown of our partners, we can either be anxious — and this is true with the unknown of life. We can be anxious, we can want to close the gap, we can want to seek the familiar in that space, or we can leave that space open and respond
to it with curiosity. And
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I look at it, certainly, inside relationships and how we reconcile these two fundamental needs that often spring from different sources and pull us in different directions. And I also think that love and desire belong, a little bit, to both of these sets of human needs, as well. So they relate, and they also conflict. And herein lies the mystery
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