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Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel
Esther Perel Global Media
Every Monday morning step into the office of iconic psychotherapist Esther Perel on "Where Should We Begin" and listen in as real people in search of insight bare the raw, intimate, and profound details of their stories. From breakups and open relationships to workplace conflicts and fractures in the family, it’s a…
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27%I Love My Partner, So Why Can’t I Let Go of My Ex?
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30%Is Using ChatGPT Hurting My Relationship?
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32%You Slept With My Best Friend
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20%My Hero Complex
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31%20 Years Later, Esther Revisits Mating in Captivity
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20%In This Relationship What Is "I" and What is "We"?
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25%Are You Abandoning Me or Am I Suffocating You?
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27%Love in the Time of AI with Kashmir Hill
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26%To Make Room for My Brother I Learned to Disappear
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26%I Gave Him an Ultimatum. Now What?
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22%My Parents Got Divorced, So Why Am I Still in the Middle?
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21%How To Start (Even When You Don't Know Where You're Going)
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23%Is This the Person I'm Meant to Be With?
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31%Wedding Woes About My Mom
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23%Should I Have Another Baby?
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22%When I'm Manic I Cheat
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25%Love, Loneliness, and AI: Where Should We Begin? Live with Esther Perel and Spike Jonze
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29%My AI Loves Me Better Than Anyone Ever Could
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24%Am I Letting My Jealousy Ruin This?
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27%Can We Repair After a 25 Year Affair?
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35%Trapped In Their Own Story
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33%What if Dating Isn't For Me?
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28%I Have a Crush on a Coworker
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19%Our Sex Life is a Disaster
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33%I Told My Friend I Was in Love with Her, Then She Told Everyone
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69%It's Very Hard to Live with a Saint
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25%Was I Used for a Visa?
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28%Can Our Love Survive Our Differences?
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24%He Loves Her, His Family Rejects Her
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23%The Permission to Be and Not Just the Pressure to Do
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19%Love in War - Where Are They Now?
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24%Mothering My Mother Into Mothering Me
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28%You Need Help to Help Her
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78%One Relationship. Two Truths.
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21%The One Who Stays and the One Who Goes
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20%In Loving You, I Learned to Love Myself
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27%I Accidentally Dated An OnlyFans Star
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21%The Chronic Philanderer
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26%He Doesn't Believe in Marriage, But I Can't Let Go of the Hope
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22%Is It Our ADHD, OCD, and PTSD? Or Is It Us?
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33%Breaking News Has Broken Us
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32%Will This Heartbreak Ever End?
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34%I’m Afraid of Losing More Than Just the Business
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30%A Secret I Can't Even Tell My Therapist
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19%Still Single at 40
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21%Grief Begins With Love With Julia Samuel
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20%Friendship - My Reliable Gift
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24%I Fell For My Best Friend
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29%Stuck in the Middle
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31%Two Conversations Esther Wants You To Hear From Sessions Live
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30%Can Our College Friendship Survive Adulthood?
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23%What Now? with Trevor Noah - Meet Esther Perel - One of My Favorite People
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31%Never Been In a Long Term Relationship, Scared I Don't Know How To Do This
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32%Esther says "Run!"
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23%I Want To Fit In, But I Don't Want To Fit In
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26%First He Loved Bombed Me And Then It Was Over
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28%Terms & Conditions May Apply: What We All Need to Know About Modern Dating
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69%I Took My Boss to Therapy
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31%I Waited for You to be Ready but Now I’m 40 and Childless
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19%I Leave First So You Can't Abandon Me
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20%Stuck Between My Daughter and My Husband
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23%I Can't Love You the Way You Want Me To
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20%Do You Love Me for Me or For What I Do for You?
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37%To Forgive My Ex-Husband I Need to Forgive Myself First
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20%You are Vocal on the Criticism But Silent on the Compliments
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28%Esther Perel Invites Us to Imagine Our Preferred Future
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23%No Longer Daddy's Little Girl
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24%I Can Break up with Him But I'm Still Stuck With Myself
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25%When the Turn On Becomes a Turn Off
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30%I'm Keeping the Baby...Now What?
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27%Is This Worth a Second Chance?
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19%Are We Just Not Sexually Compatible? Part Two
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21%Are We Just Not Sexually Compatible?
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34%Did I Get Ghosted or Is He Just Not That Into Me?
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24%I Don't Want to Turn Into My Mother
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32%Grief is Like a Fingerprint
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30%Say More - Esther Perel on Fantasy with Gillian Anderson
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29%How Many Times Can I Forgive You?
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23%Finding Love Would Mean Letting Go of Who I Am
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24%You Are So Not Invited to My Wedding
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36%Love the Child, Not the Father
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26%Best Friends Don't Make For the Best Bosses
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36%Say More - Miranda July and Esther Perel on The Rebirth of Desire
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35%Why Can't I Find Someone? Is it Me?
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26%We Had Boundaries and He Crossed Them
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28%You Keep Planning A Future Without Me
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28%Four Affairs, Four Divorces. Why Do I Keep Doing This?
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31%What If I Break Up With My Dad?
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35%It Feels Like My Siblings Abandoned Me
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28%Does Growing Up Mean Growing Apart?
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27%My Mom Should Have Set a Different Example
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79%Love is a Trap
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24%I Think I Married the Wrong Person
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27%My Exes Exes Keep Ruining My Relationships
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34%Esther Perel on New AI - Artificial Intimacy
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23%My Husband, His Other Wife, and Me
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26%Sex, Comedy and Context: A Live Conversation with Trevor Noah
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20%If He's A "High Value Man", What Am I?
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25%I Love You One Day, I Hate You The Next
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25%Say More - Ira Glass on Is This It?
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34%I Trust You to Always Tell Me When I'm Wrong
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35%I Lost Him, But I Lost Myself Too
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36%He Wants it Everyday, She Wants it Never
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34%As They Like Me More, I Like Myself Less
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30%Part of Me Wants to Cheat Part Two
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20%Part of Me Wants to Cheat Part One
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27%Now That I Have A Girlfriend, I Never Want To Leave My Wife
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28%Am I Just Your Placeholder?
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31%Non-Negotiables in the New Year | From Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris
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21%Say More - Neil Patrick Harris on Friendship
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22%My Emotional Inheritance
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23%Is This Survivor's Guilt?
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22%She's Out, He's Still In.
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22%Depleted Mothers Club
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29%A Marriage Organized Around Trauma
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26%A Hospital Divided
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37%I Left. Now I Want My Wife Back.
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24%Self Love Isn't Something I Grew Up With
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33%How's Work? - The Preacher's Wife Part Two
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34%How's Work? - The Preacher's Wife
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30%My Brother's Wife Ruined Our Relationship
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19%I Want Her to Like Me Less
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19%I Crossed a Line I Never Thought I Would Cross
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24%I've Had Better
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24%Long Distance and Lost
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23%Am I Being Gaslit?
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23%Donor Daddy
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27%Love In War with Esther Perel: Ukraine
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26%I Need Her to See Me
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23%We Started As An Affair
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30%I Deserve to Be a Mother
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30%Having Needs Doesn't Make You Needy
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24%My Orgasm Is Not Just For Me
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22%Twice Married, To Each Other
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23%Will He Make The Space For Me
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22%It's a Matter of Pride
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32%I Can Be Strong and Be Taken Care Of
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30%I Don't Mean to Be Mean, But...
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33%An Intimate Evening with Esther Perel
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19%Before We Got Together I Identified As Gay
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25%Where Are They Now - A Romantic Revival
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20%Losing My Best Friend
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30%My Partner's Privilege
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30%If I Quit, What Will People Say? | How's Work?
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32%Couples Under Lockdown: Lagos, Nigeria
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25%Couples Under Lockdown: New York, New York
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20%Couples Under Lockdown: Bavaria, Germany
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22%Couples Under Lockdown: Sicily, Italy
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