Esther Perel

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5,077 appearances 21 recordings 15 series first heard Sep 2024 last heard 21 Jun

Esther Perel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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On Purpose with Jay Shetty · Esther Perel: The REAL Reason You’re Struggling to Find Love (Fix THIS to Build Chemistry in Real Life) · 4 May 2026 podcast

they have not approached a woman face-to-face in public to ask them out, to create a connection.

And I was thinking, I grew up at a time where all we did was have to pluck up the courage to walk over to a woman in a bar at the mall, wherever it was to just say, hey, you're cute.

Or like, hey, can I get your number?

Hey, can I, whatever it was.

And I remember how stressful that was as a man.

So I realized that there's,

But today, do you think it's a fear of rejection?

Do you think it's a lack of social skills, as you're mentioning?

Where's that coming from?

So I think there's a number of different things going on at the same time.

Continuing with less social interaction is also the fact that we're more and more living in a contactless world.

You don't have to leave your house for a lot of things that, you know, it's not just you would come up to the girl and start talking to her.

Since the pandemic, we learned we didn't have to leave the house to go to school.

And the 18 to 25 year old is the generation that went to school during the pandemic.

So that's the first thing is a complete cut off of the socialized world.

You don't have to leave your house to work, to shop, to eat, to exercise.

Contactless.

You can have everything delivered without having to even thank the person who is bringing the food.

At every level, we have tried to remove contact and friction.

Coming up to talk to a girl is friction.

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