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

De: Esther Perel

Narrado por: Esther Perel

[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.©2017 Audible Originals, LLC (P)2017 Audible Originals, LLC

when the good guy is not so good

Loved this episode. The most poignant part looked at fantasies as a manifestation or code for the problem and the solution A++++++

Pleasure vs duty

A misguided caregiver leads an ascetic life based on guilt about pleasure and guilt being comfortable. This one was a tough one to untangle.

Awesome!! Great information

Yet another great episode from the guests and Esther. Gold .. Straight Gold. Always so helpful and provides info every relationship could use including info from EVERY other episode

Enlightening!

Relationships can be so complicated; a maze of emotions and experieneces. These talks help to decipher them.

Incredible

She’s got a gift and is a poet of love and relationships. Really great episode!

Wow, this is powerful stuff.

This work goes very deep. Madame Perel is giving us a all a wonderful gift, the chance to listen in (appropriately) to another couples therapy session. Her TED Talks are also amazing though I haven't started any of her books, yet.

love it!

so applicable and insightful! thank you Esther Perel. I have learned a lot from you!

Esther has some incredible insights

loved it! fascinating intelligent insights right to the very end worth my time and energy

Mission Impossible

I struggled to complete this. The guy here is a frustrated wannabe priest. I almost think he chose her as a polar opposite so he could low-key "save" her.

Another tediously mismatched pair

After 45 minutes the guy asks aloud, Why are we together? And I’ve been wondering that all along! She seems like a decent enough person wasting her time with a neurotic martyr do-gooder who probably should have stayed on the path to ordination. What leapt our for me was when he said he feels guilty loving and attending to one individual person because he ought to be loving the world and meeting the needs of many people... that is the logic of holy celibacy. Which is fine, and I hope hearing themselves helps them both realize their incompatibility.