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Can I Still Be a Good Man if I Leave?

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I Want You To Want Me

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

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My Ex, His AI Girlfriend, And Our Kids

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Good Relationships Need Better Fights

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How Many Times Can You Betray Me?

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On Again/Off Again

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Will I Always Be Alone?

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Can I Be Loved?

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Am I Being Gaslit?

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I Love My Partner, So Why Can’t I Let Go of My Ex?

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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"?

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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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I Gave Him an Ultimatum. Now What?

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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

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Should I Have Another Baby?

27

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

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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

33

What if Dating Isn't For Me?

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I Have a Crush on a Coworker

35

Our Sex Life is a Disaster

36

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

37

It's Very Hard to Live with a Saint

38

Was I Used for a Visa?

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Can Our Love Survive Our Differences?

40

He Loves Her, His Family Rejects Her

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The Permission to Be and Not Just the Pressure to Do

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Love in War - Where Are They Now?

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Mothering My Mother Into Mothering Me

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You Need Help to Help Her

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One Relationship. Two Truths.

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The One Who Stays and the One Who Goes

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In Loving You, I Learned to Love Myself

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I Accidentally Dated An OnlyFans Star

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The Chronic Philanderer

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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?

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Breaking News Has Broken Us

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Will This Heartbreak Ever End?

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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

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I Fell For My Best Friend

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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

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I Leave First So You Can't Abandon Me

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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?

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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?

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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

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Love the Child, Not the Father

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Best Friends Don't Make For the Best Bosses

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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?

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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