Esther Perel

Often when you are attracted by the gaze of another, it isn't just because you want to leave the person that you are with, but it is because you want to leave the person that you have yourself become.

What did this affair mean for you?

Were you thinking about us?

Did you hope I would find out?

Did you think about the children?

These questions are actually going to calm you and they give you a different sense of power over your life and over your relationship.

Yes.

Please, please.

You resent him or yourself for accepting it?

Damn, you're good.

Modern loneliness masks itself as hyper-connectivity.

Wow.

You say couples are so damn tired that they have sex really at the bottom of the to-do list.

Here's the amen choir over here.

I hear like a third of Americans are having romantic relationships with chatbots.

What do you want to say about this?

I have a lot to say about this.

Okay, you have a lot to say about this.

Well, audience, we got something to talk about here today.

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