For her latest Audible Original, Where Should We Begin?: The Arc of Love, Esther Perel invites you to listen to private and intimate conversations exploring the evolution of relationships. Hear six sets of people at different points in their quests f...

Esther Perel's Where Should We Begin?: The Arc of Love

Esther Perel takes on tough questions, grappling with the obstacles and anxieties that arise when our quest for secure love conflicts with our pursuit of passion. She invites us to explore the paradoxical union of domesticity and sexual desire, and e...

Mating in Captivity

[Contains mature themes] He reached out because a year after the discovery of his affair, they aren’t fighting anymore, but they certainly haven’t moved on. Esther guides them towards a more honest conversation, and a revelation about their communica...

Ep. 1: I've Had Better

Iconic couples' therapist and best-selling author of Mating in Captivity Esther Perel returns with a groundbreaking and provocative look at infidelity, arguing for a more nuanced and less judgmental conversation about our transgressions.  An affair: ...

The State of Affairs

[Contains mature themes] A couple with two small children are at physical and emotional odds in their relationship. One has given herself over entirely to the children, while the other struggles to find her place within the family dynamic. Esther hel...

Ep. 2: Motherless Women

[Contains mature themes] A husband and wife met while deeply committed to the evangelical faith and didn’t kiss until their wedding day; for her, that kiss felt like “kissing her brother.” Esther gets creative in an effort to help them create a new s...

Ep. 3: Speak to Me in French

[Contains mature themes] They’re grandparents, with a 40-year love story and a stable, happy marriage. But one of them had quite a few secrets. Esther gives them some tools to navigate and support each other's experiences. Step into the office of ren...

Ep. 4: The Addict

[Contains mature themes] A man has struggled with impotence for over two decades. His wife, in despair over her feelings of hopelessness in the bedroom, seeks relief for her sexual frustration and feelings of resentment.Step into the office of renown...

Ep. 5: Impotent Is No Way to Define a Man

[Contains mature themes] They have been together for 17 years, best friends and partners who, despite their loving and positive relationship, they go months without connecting sexually.Step into the office of renowned relationship therapist and TED T...

Ep. 6: There's You There's Me and There's Us

[Contains mature themes] A couple are first-generation children of immigrants, raised to believe sex should only take place in a marriage. Now that sex isn’t forbidden, it’s deeply uninteresting…to one of them.Step into the office of renowned relatio...

Ep. 8: Sexlessness

[Contains mature themes] A young family, a 16-year age difference, and a wife who used an extra-marital relationship to find independence. They’ve made the choice to forgive and rebuild, but that doesn’t wipe away the pain of the betrayal. Esther coa...

Ep. 7: Tell Me I'm Not Alone

[Contains mature themes] A newly-married couple comes to Esther for guidance on how to create a space of safety and physical intimacy, while also giving voice to past trauma. Step into the office of renowned relationship therapist and TED Talk sensat...

Ep. 9: Trauma Doesn't Like to Be Touched

[Contains mature Themes] A woman realizes she doesn’t want to have children and comes to Esther for help expressing this to her husband, who passionately wishes to be a father. But often the stories people come in with are not the ones they take home...

Ep. 10: I Can't Give You a Child

[Contains mature themes] Free for a limited time for Audible members. A husband and wife are united in their desire to help their daughter, two years after she suffered a breakdown and moved home, shutting herself off from her family and friends. Esther urges them to examine the way pressure and expectations – no matter how well-intentioned – can shape a child’s upbringing.

Ep. 1: You Need Help to Help Her

[Contains mature themes] Free for a limited time to Audible members. After ten years, a husband tells his wife he no longer wishes to be married. A month later, stuck in limbo, they come to Esther. She helps them have an honest conversation about their expectations, desires, and the ways in which their role as parents has left little room for intimacy. 

Ep. 2: I Want to Feel Wanted

[Contains mature themes] Free for a limited time to Audible members. An on-again, off-again couple in their fifties, dating in a post-divorce landscape, are struggling with different world views, priorities and sexual interests. Recognizing that their polarized dynamic takes the fun out of spending time together, Esther guides both towards less rigid perspectives.

Ep. 3: Ms. Entitlement And Mr. Sacrifice Out on a Date

When you love someone, how does it feel? And when you desire someone, how is it different? In Mating in Captivity, Esther Perel looks at the story of sex in committed couples.  Modern romance promises it all - a lifetime of togetherness, intimacy and...

[Contains mature themes] Free for a limited time. Step into iconic relationship therapist Esther Perel's office and listen as 10 anonymous couples in search of insight bare the raw, intimate, and profound details of their story. From infidelity to se...

Prologue

Joining us in the Audible Studios to discuss her series Where Should We Begin? is esteemed psychotherapist Esther Perel.   Coined as one of the original voices of modern relationships, Perel has accumulated up to 20 million listeners for her coveted ...

Esther Perel

Iconic couples' therapist and best-selling author Esther Perel returns with a provocative look at relationships through the lens of infidelity, providing the insight we so desperately need to help us move beyond a simplistic discussion.  An affair: i...

Esther Perel est thérapeute de couples, conférencières, auteur et est spécialisée dans les relations amoureuses. Esther est une célébrité outre-Atlantique avec plus de 20 millions de visionnage de ces TED, ses conférences se remplissent en quelques m...

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Esther Perel is recognized as one of the worlds most original and insightful voices on personal and professional relationships. She is the best-selling author of Mating in Captivity Unlocking Erotic Intelligence, translated into 25 languages. Fluent in nine of them, the Belgian native is a practicing psychotherapist, celebrated speaker and organizational consultant to Fortune 500 companies. The New York Times, in a cover story, named her the most important game changer on sexuality and relationships since Dr. Ruth. Her critically acclaimed viral TED talk reached nearly 5 million viewers in the first year. Known for her keen cross-cultural pulse, Esther shifts the paradigm of our approach to modern relationships. She is regularly sought

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