Kate Langbroek

Hi, I'm Kate Langbrook, and my guest today is Esther Perel.

Esther is one of the world's most influential relationship therapists.

She spent decades helping people understand love, desire, marriage, infidelity, intimacy and family.

Her books have become international bestsellers.

Her TED Talks have been watched by millions.

And through her podcast, Where Should We Begin?, she's invited us into the private conversations most people only have behind closed doors.

What makes Esther's work so compelling is that she doesn't just talk about relationships.

She talks about relationships as a reflection of the culture we live in, the families we come from, and the people we're trying to become.

And lately, there's one story that seems to be playing out everywhere.

We've watched it happen publicly with Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz, with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

An adult child falls in love, chooses a partner and suddenly finds themselves caught between the family they came from and the family they're trying to build.

The details are different, but the tension is familiar.

What happens when your parents don't approve of the person you've chosen?

What happens when a partner enters a family and changes its dynamics forever?

And why can choosing the person you love sometimes feel like betraying the people who raised you?

Today, Esther and I are talking about loyalty, family, love, estrangement, and what happens when our most important relationships collide.

This is Esther Perel.

Esther Perel

welcome to no filter thank you it's a great thrill to have you here it's a pleasure for me to be here well let us see at the end who's been pleasured but i was thinking about you and and um

really your contribution to, I think, a public analysis of relationships that is at once very personal for people.