Esther Perel
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Podcast Appearances
What?
Contempt.
Contempt.
What stands out when you say, what's the big deal?
Why you need to always overblow things?
You always have to make such a big drama.
Just chill, just relax, just keep it in perspective.
Just, just, just.
Meaning, what's wrong with you?
And what's wrong with you says, I have contempt.
Which is really the number one killer, actually.
Every biography is a betrayal of someone else.
You cannot tell your story without telling things about people who are in your story who didn't ask to be spoken about.
That's by definition.
I mean, this is the era where more people have written biographies than ever before.
Every person has a biography to write.
So a biography tells my story in the context of many relationships with others who didn't ask for the story to be told.
Every biography is a betrayal, a small one, but it's a betrayal.
You're like, oh, girl, get after it.
But you need to know that that's what we do.