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Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel — 142 episodes

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

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Are You Abandoning Me or Am I Suffocating You?

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Love in the Time of AI with Kashmir Hill

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To Make Room for My Brother I Learned to Disappear

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

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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?

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Wedding Woes About My Mom

9

Should I Have Another Baby?

10

When I'm Manic I Cheat

11

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

12

My AI Loves Me Better Than Anyone Ever Could

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Am I Letting My Jealousy Ruin This?

14

Can We Repair After a 25 Year Affair?

15

Trapped In Their Own Story

16

What if Dating Isn't For Me?

17

I Have a Crush on a Coworker

18

Our Sex Life is a Disaster

19

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

20

It's Very Hard to Live with a Saint

21

Was I Used for a Visa?

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Can Our Love Survive Our Differences?

23

He Loves Her, His Family Rejects Her

24

The Permission to Be and Not Just the Pressure to Do

25

Love in War - Where Are They Now?

26

Mothering My Mother Into Mothering Me

27

You Need Help to Help Her

28

One Relationship. Two Truths.

29

The One Who Stays and the One Who Goes

30

In Loving You, I Learned to Love Myself

31

I Accidentally Dated An OnlyFans Star

32

The Chronic Philanderer

33

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

34

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

35

Breaking News Has Broken Us

36

Will This Heartbreak Ever End?

37

I’m Afraid of Losing More Than Just the Business

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A Secret I Can't Even Tell My Therapist

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Still Single at 40

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Grief Begins With Love With Julia Samuel

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Friendship - My Reliable Gift

42

I Fell For My Best Friend

43

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?

46

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!"

49

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

50

First He Loved Bombed Me And Then It Was Over

51

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

52

I Took My Boss to Therapy

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

54

I Leave First So You Can't Abandon Me

55

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

59

You are Vocal on the Criticism But Silent on the Compliments

60

Esther Perel Invites Us to Imagine Our Preferred Future

61

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?

65

Is This Worth a Second Chance?

66

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

70

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?

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Finding Love Would Mean Letting Go of Who I Am

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You Are So Not Invited to My Wedding

75

Love the Child, Not the Father

76

Best Friends Don't Make For the Best Bosses

77

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

78

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

79

We Had Boundaries and He Crossed Them

80

You Keep Planning A Future Without Me

81

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

82

What If I Break Up With My Dad?

83

It Feels Like My Siblings Abandoned Me

84

Does Growing Up Mean Growing Apart?

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My Mom Should Have Set a Different Example

86

Love is a Trap

87

I Think I Married the Wrong Person

88

My Exes Exes Keep Ruining My Relationships

89

Esther Perel on New AI - Artificial Intimacy

90

My Husband, His Other Wife, and Me

91

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

92

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

93

I Love You One Day, I Hate You The Next

94

Say More - Ira Glass on Is This It?

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

96

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

99

Part of Me Wants to Cheat Part Two

100

Part of Me Wants to Cheat Part One

101

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

102

Am I Just Your Placeholder?

103

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

104

Say More - Neil Patrick Harris on Friendship

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My Emotional Inheritance

106

Is This Survivor's Guilt?

107

She's Out, He's Still In.

108

Depleted Mothers Club

109

A Marriage Organized Around Trauma

110

A Hospital Divided

111

I Left. Now I Want My Wife Back.

112

Self Love Isn't Something I Grew Up With

113

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

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How's Work? - The Preacher's Wife

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My Brother's Wife Ruined Our Relationship

116

I Want Her to Like Me Less

117

I Crossed a Line I Never Thought I Would Cross

118

Long Distance and Lost

119

Am I Being Gaslit?

120

Donor Daddy

121

Love In War with Esther Perel: Ukraine

122

I Need Her to See Me

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We Started As An Affair

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124

I Deserve to Be a Mother

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125

Having Needs Doesn't Make You Needy

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126

My Orgasm Is Not Just For Me

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127

Twice Married, To Each Other

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128

Will He Make The Space For Me

129

It's a Matter of Pride

130

I Can Be Strong and Be Taken Care Of

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131

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

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132

An Intimate Evening with Esther Perel

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133

Before We Got Together I Identified As Gay

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134

Where Are They Now - A Romantic Revival

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135

Losing My Best Friend

136

My Partner's Privilege

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

138

Couples Under Lockdown: Lagos, Nigeria

139

Couples Under Lockdown: New York, New York

140

Couples Under Lockdown: Bavaria, Germany

141

Couples Under Lockdown: Sicily, Italy

142

Prologue