Success, to me, is helping one person or many people counter the isolation and pseudoconnectivity of our lives by boosting their ability… — Esther Perel Ability Copy Share Image
For me, the constitutive element of an affair is the secrecy. It is the secrecy that leads to the lying, to the… — Esther Perel Affair Copy Share Image
For some people, a one-night stand doesn't make any difference in a seven-year love affair. I don't believe the degree of betrayal… — Esther Perel Affair Copy Share Image
The very ingredients that nurture love - mutuality, reciprocity, protection, worry, responsibility for the other - are sometimes the very ingredients that… — Esther Perel Desire 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 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
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
“Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery. Love likes to shrink the distance that exists between me and you, while… — Esther Perel Desire Copy Share Image
The whole notion of one person being enough for everything gets instantly challenged when you start to talk with somebody about wanting… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Even a good marriage leaves people with longings for certain things their marriage will never be. So, do they accept that, make… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
At this point, we are living one of the greatest experiments in humankind - to create something that has, throughout history, been… — Esther Perel Best friend Copy Share Image
I think love is often a bit selfish, even before we had consumerism. That's not new. A consumer society gives you the… — Esther Perel Choices 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
“It is always astonishing how love can strike. No context is love-proof, no convention or commitment impervious. Even a lifestyle which is… — Esther Perel Eros Copy Share Image
Our consumer economy peddles the notions "romantic consumerism" of finding "the one," of being the one. It's the narcissistic enhancement of, "I'm… — Esther Perel Commitment Copy Share Image
