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Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel — 147 episodes

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Burdens of the Family

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Is Using ChatGPT Hurting My Relationship?

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You Slept With My Best Friend

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My Hero Complex

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20 Years Later, Esther Revisits Mating in Captivity

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In This Relationship What Is "I" and What is "We"?

7

Are You Abandoning Me or Am I Suffocating You?

8

Love in the Time of AI with Kashmir Hill

9

To Make Room for My Brother I Learned to Disappear

10

My Parents Got Divorced, So Why Am I Still in the Middle?

11

How To Start (Even When You Don't Know Where You're Going)

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Is This the Person I'm Meant to Be With?

13

Wedding Woes About My Mom

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Should I Have Another Baby?

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When I'm Manic I Cheat

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Love, Loneliness, and AI: Where Should We Begin? Live with Esther Perel and Spike Jonze

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My AI Loves Me Better Than Anyone Ever Could

18

Am I Letting My Jealousy Ruin This?

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Can We Repair After a 25 Year Affair?

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Trapped In Their Own Story

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What if Dating Isn't For Me?

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I Have a Crush on a Coworker

23

Our Sex Life is a Disaster

24

I Told My Friend I Was in Love with Her, Then She Told Everyone

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It's Very Hard to Live with a Saint

26

Was I Used for a Visa?

27

Can Our Love Survive Our Differences?

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He Loves Her, His Family Rejects Her

29

The Permission to Be and Not Just the Pressure to Do

30

Love in War - Where Are They Now?

31

Mothering My Mother Into Mothering Me

32

You Need Help to Help Her

33

One Relationship. Two Truths.

34

The One Who Stays and the One Who Goes

35

In Loving You, I Learned to Love Myself

36

I Accidentally Dated An OnlyFans Star

37

The Chronic Philanderer

38

He Doesn't Believe in Marriage, But I Can't Let Go of the Hope

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Is It Our ADHD, OCD, and PTSD? Or Is It Us?

40

Breaking News Has Broken Us

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Will This Heartbreak Ever End?

42

I’m Afraid of Losing More Than Just the Business

43

A Secret I Can't Even Tell My Therapist

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Still Single at 40

45

Grief Begins With Love With Julia Samuel

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Friendship - My Reliable Gift

47

I Fell For My Best Friend

48

Stuck in the Middle

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Two Conversations Esther Wants You To Hear From Sessions Live

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Can Our College Friendship Survive Adulthood?

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What Now? with Trevor Noah - Meet Esther Perel - One of My Favorite People

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Never Been In a Long Term Relationship, Scared I Don't Know How To Do This

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Esther says "Run!"

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I Want To Fit In, But I Don't Want To Fit In

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First He Loved Bombed Me And Then It Was Over

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Terms & Conditions May Apply: What We All Need to Know About Modern Dating

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I Took My Boss to Therapy

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I Waited for You to be Ready but Now I’m 40 and Childless

59

I Leave First So You Can't Abandon Me

60

Stuck Between My Daughter and My Husband

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I Can't Love You the Way You Want Me To

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Do You Love Me for Me or For What I Do for You?

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To Forgive My Ex-Husband I Need to Forgive Myself First

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You are Vocal on the Criticism But Silent on the Compliments

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Esther Perel Invites Us to Imagine Our Preferred Future

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No Longer Daddy's Little Girl

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I Can Break up with Him But I'm Still Stuck With Myself

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When the Turn On Becomes a Turn Off

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I'm Keeping the Baby...Now What?

70

Is This Worth a Second Chance?

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Are We Just Not Sexually Compatible? Part Two

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Are We Just Not Sexually Compatible?

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Did I Get Ghosted or Is He Just Not That Into Me?

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I Don't Want to Turn Into My Mother

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Grief is Like a Fingerprint

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Say More - Esther Perel on Fantasy with Gillian Anderson

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How Many Times Can I Forgive You?

78

Finding Love Would Mean Letting Go of Who I Am

79

You Are So Not Invited to My Wedding

80

Love the Child, Not the Father

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Best Friends Don't Make For the Best Bosses

82

Say More - Miranda July and Esther Perel on The Rebirth of Desire

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Why Can't I Find Someone? Is it Me?

84

We Had Boundaries and He Crossed Them

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You Keep Planning A Future Without Me

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Four Affairs, Four Divorces. Why Do I Keep Doing This?

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What If I Break Up With My Dad?

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It Feels Like My Siblings Abandoned Me

89

Does Growing Up Mean Growing Apart?

90

My Mom Should Have Set a Different Example

91

Love is a Trap

92

I Think I Married the Wrong Person

93

My Exes Exes Keep Ruining My Relationships

94

Esther Perel on New AI - Artificial Intimacy

95

My Husband, His Other Wife, and Me

96

Sex, Comedy and Context: A Live Conversation with Trevor Noah

97

If He's A "High Value Man", What Am I?

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I Love You One Day, I Hate You The Next

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Say More - Ira Glass on Is This It?

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I Trust You to Always Tell Me When I'm Wrong

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I Lost Him, But I Lost Myself Too

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He Wants it Everyday, She Wants it Never

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As They Like Me More, I Like Myself Less

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Part of Me Wants to Cheat Part Two

105

Part of Me Wants to Cheat Part One

106

Now That I Have A Girlfriend, I Never Want To Leave My Wife

107

Am I Just Your Placeholder?

108

Non-Negotiables in the New Year | From Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris

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Say More - Neil Patrick Harris on Friendship

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My Emotional Inheritance

111

Is This Survivor's Guilt?

112

She's Out, He's Still In.

113

Depleted Mothers Club

114

A Marriage Organized Around Trauma

115

A Hospital Divided

116

I Left. Now I Want My Wife Back.

117

Self Love Isn't Something I Grew Up With

118

How's Work? - The Preacher's Wife Part Two

119

How's Work? - The Preacher's Wife

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My Brother's Wife Ruined Our Relationship

121

I Want Her to Like Me Less

122

I Crossed a Line I Never Thought I Would Cross

123

Long Distance and Lost

124

Am I Being Gaslit?

125

Donor Daddy

126

Love In War with Esther Perel: Ukraine

127

I Need Her to See Me

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We Started As An Affair

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129

I Deserve to Be a Mother

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130

Having Needs Doesn't Make You Needy

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131

My Orgasm Is Not Just For Me

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Twice Married, To Each Other

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Will He Make The Space For Me

134

It's a Matter of Pride

135

I Can Be Strong and Be Taken Care Of

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136

I Don't Mean to Be Mean, But...

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An Intimate Evening with Esther Perel

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Before We Got Together I Identified As Gay

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139

Where Are They Now - A Romantic Revival

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Losing My Best Friend

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My Partner's Privilege

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If I Quit, What Will People Say? | How's Work?

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Couples Under Lockdown: Lagos, Nigeria

144

Couples Under Lockdown: New York, New York

145

Couples Under Lockdown: Bavaria, Germany

146

Couples Under Lockdown: Sicily, Italy

147

Prologue