Ep. 1: I've Had Better

By: Esther Perel

Narrated by: Esther Perel

[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 communication.

Step into the office of renowned relationship therapist and TED Talk sensation Esther Perel, and listen in as she counsels couples in crisis due to infidelity, sexlessness, loss, and disconnection. The result? Astonishing insights on how they can make love work – and takeaways for you on ways to repair and restore your own relationships.

About Esther:

Esther Perel is recognized as one of today’s most insightful and provocative voices on personal and professional relationships. A celebrated psychotherapist who has helmed a private practice in New York City since 1983, she has over three decades of experience navigating the intricacies of love and desire.

A Note from Esther:

Too often couples live like isolated islands. We think what we’re experiencing in our own relationship is unique to us, and we don’t know that our neighbors and friends are experiencing the same longings, laments, deprivations, and disillusionments in their own lives.

There is no school for relationships, no place for us to learn the tools for rebuilding and repair, to learn to straddle the many contradictions that roil in all of us. Where Should We Begin? Is a way for me to create meaningful, deep, and open conversations. As you listen to these intimate, unscripted sessions between real-life couples, I think you will find the language you’ve been looking for to have conversations with the people in your own life.

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Fascinating

Very informative and entertaining. If you enjoy her books or Ted talks, you will like this.

Insightful

Even if this is not your story there are parts that will resonate with most of us either in our current or past relationships regardless if infidelity was involved.

insightful

The wife in this therapy session is highly judgmental & horrifyingly self-righteous. Her compassionless communication style is disturbing for me to listen to. It's interesting to hear the therapist skillfully begin to teach her to understand how to truly hear her husband when he tries to be honest with her about his feelings. This is a very good listen.

Be a fly on the wall ✔

Finally one of my wishes come true! If I had been given a say as to which one out of my many many wishes made across my life so far.. not sure I'd have paused to consider awarding this one the trophy. HOWEVER, being as it did come true I am pleased to share that the experience was enjoyable and I'm leaving from here to go find more of it. Definitely check it out if you're thinking couples counseling but the unknowns are paralyzing you. Also, I think it could help some men to hear that they aren't going to be walking into an attack of their character or a reading of their every failure and in fact could find themselves in a place that helps them to be understand as well as to understand.

Excellent.

Listening to this helped me understand issues in my marriage we've worked on with little success for months. Ms. (Or is it Dr.?) Perel has a way of connecting with the human condition that is so comforting I immediately felt at ease accepting advice and understanding my partners point of view for first time. Absolutely eye opening.