Betrayal Quote by Esther Perel Download Open image ““despite its widespread denunciation, infidelity has a tenacity that marriage can only envy.”” — Esther Perel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Betrayal Marriage
“Infidelity reduces and diminishes, leaving nothing where you once had a sense of self-worth.” — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“Infidelity doesn't have to be the most devastating that can happen in a marriage.” — Carole Matthews 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 the egregious… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“To an outsider it seems a vital ingredient of many marriages that each partner should support the illusions of the other.” — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
“For me the act of marriage has proven, like most of the other disastrous acts of my life, little more than a hedge against… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it strengthens a marriage to see the worst and find the sweetness of happiness later.” — Christine Merrill Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, we cannot escape the suspicion that individuality might be inhibited by marriage, and we wonder whether people in open relationships might not really… — Daniel Bullen Copy Share Image
“Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“For [erotically intelligent couples], love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life:… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
It’s hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy. — Esther Perel 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 is always… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
I want to engage people in an honest, enlightened, and provocative conversation about the nature of erotic desire and the intricacies of intimacy and… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“The quality of your life ultimately depends on the quality of your relationships . . . which are basically a reflection of your sense… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
If you start to feel that you have given up too many parts of yourself to be with your partner, then one day you… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
On some level we trade passion for security, that's trading one illusion for another. It's a matter of degree. We can't live in constant… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“When the impulse to share becomes obligatory, when personal boundaries are no longer respected, when only the shared space of togetherness is acknowledged and… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“I do believe that the emphasis on egalitarian and respectful sex—purged of any expressions of power, aggression, and transgression—is antithetical to erotic desire for… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“That's the catch about betrayal, of course: that it feels good, that there's something immensely pleasurable about moving from a complicated relationship which involves… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
God’s faithfulness is stronger than our unfaithfulness and our infidelities. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
If you leave someone for another person, don't be surprised if that person leaves you for someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As they say in New York, Get over it and, if you can't get over it, Get over talking about it.” — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“He returned her gaze, yearning for sentimental solace; love which emanated from a familiar source, mattered little how bedevilling. They shared an intimate moment,… — A. H. Septimius Copy Share Image
I was always here for you,you knew you could count on me and trust me blindly, and you knew that I would never tell… — Michael Hayssus Copy Share Image
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Love comes exactly... To those who still hope, even though they've been disappointed. To those who still believe, even though they've been betrayed and… — Mizhan 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 is always… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Betrayal is a serious thing in this world,you know what else is serious? Being lied to. — Sabrina Copy Share Image