“Frank Jude Boccio, author of Mindfulness Yoga, to think about as he leaves the session: “We bitch about our difficulties along the… — Esther Perel Books Copy Share Image
People cheat on each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, lack of respect, years of refusal of intimacy.… — Esther Perel Cheat Copy Share Image
The meaning of secrecy is very different when the model of love is one of transparency. So to understand the politics of… — Esther Perel Couple Copy Share Image
If a woman isn't feeling sexual with herself, she won't respond to advances from any partner, male or female. When this woman… — Esther Perel Dance Copy Share Image
“Infidelity hurts. But when we grant it a special status in the hierarchy of marital misdemeanors, we risk allowing it to overshadow… — Esther Perel Betrayal Copy Share Image
“Eroticism resides in the ambiguous space between anxiety and fascination.” — Esther Perel Anxiety Copy Share Image
Modern love is the enterprise that everyone wants to be a part of, yet there's a fifty percent divorce rate in round… — Esther Perel Business Copy Share Image
It isn’t so much that we want to leave the person we are with as we want to leave the person we… — Esther Perel Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Neutralizing each other’s complexity affords us a kind of manageable otherness.” — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
In committed sex, in marriage, people don't feel the need to seduce or to build anticipation - - that's an effort they… — Esther Perel Anticipation Copy Share Image
“The grand illusion of committed love is that we think our partners are ours. In truth, their separateness is unassailable, and their… — Esther Perel Desire Copy Share Image
But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the… — Esther Perel Anxiety Copy Share Image
“Erotic intelligence is about creating distance, then bringing that space to life.” — Esther Perel Intelligence Copy Share Image
One of the big misconceptions is that affairs or trysts are flings about sex. And sometimes they are, but much more often… — Esther Perel Affair Copy Share Image
Many couples have never had a conversation about sexuality and sexual boundaries. The presence or lack of sex, the quality of it,… — Esther Perel Affair Copy Share Image
Erotic intelligence stretches far beyond a repertoire of sexual techniques. It is an intelligence that celebrates curiosity and play, the power of… — Esther Perel Celebrate Copy Share Image
We are afraid that our adult sexuality will somehow damage our kids, that it’s inappropriate or dangerous. But whom are we protecting?… — Esther Perel Adults Copy Share Image
As a teenager growing up in Europe, I embraced the romantic ideal. For me, I had to give up the ideal that… — Esther Perel Accepting Copy Share Image
The mom doesn't become sexy; the woman does. You have to retrieve the woman from the mother. And she may need to… — Esther Perel Baths Copy Share Image
“Ours is a culture that reveres the ethos of absolute frankness and elevates truth-telling to moral perfection. Other cultures believe that when… — Esther Perel Culture Copy Share Image
I believe that the vast majority of people that are unfaithful are monogamous in their beliefs. The ones who are not monogamous… — Esther Perel Being married Copy Share Image
I say no to a double standard that men can roam and women must stay put at home. I say no to… — Esther Perel Affair Copy Share Image
In my community there were two groups of people, There were the ones who did not die and the ones who came… — Esther Perel Community Copy Share Image
