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Featuring consensually recorded counselling sessions, Belgian therapist and TED alum Esther Perel walks her clients through the ways in which relationships can break down, play out and build back up again. This bold experiment in intimacy, offers listeners the chance to eavesdrop on the failing relationships of real couples. As experiences, feelings and frustrations are laid bare for all to hear, the all too familiar tragedies that contribute to broken relationships can be both heartbreaking and life-affirming.

When you love someone, how does it feel? And when you desire someone, how is it different? In Mating in Captivity, Esther Perel looks at the story of sex in committed couples. Modern romance promises it all - a lifetime of togetherness, intimacy and erotic desire. In reality, it's hard to want what you already have. Our quest for secure love conflicts with our pursuit of passion. And often, the very thing that got us to into our relationships - lust - is the one thing that goes missing from them.

For her latest Audible Original, Where Should We Begin?: The Arc of Love, Esther Perel invites you to listen to private and intimate conversations exploring the evolution of relationships. Hear six sets of people at different points in their quest for romantic and familial love, including a young couple whose immigration status has forced them to consider marriage, a step-mother trying to put the pieces back together for four children whose mother died by suicide, a non-binary child desperate to connect with their single mother, a divorced couple whose two-household relationship may prove that marriage doesn’t have to end after divorce, and more. Listen and better understand your own relationships through the struggles of these people and Esther’s remarkable insights. 

Step into iconic relationship therapist Esther Perel's office and listen as eight anonymous couples in search of insight bare the raw, intimate, and profound details of their stories. From illness to parenting to the end of a marriage, it's a space for difficult conversations and greater understanding. It's also a place for us to listen and feel empowered in our own relationships. So... where should we begin?

Iconic couples' therapist and best-selling author Esther Perel returns with a provocative look at relationships through the lens of infidelity, providing the insight we so desperately need to help us move beyond a simplistic discussion. An affair: it can rob a couple of their relationship, their happiness, their very identity. Adultery has existed since marriage was invented, and so, too, have the prohibitions against it - in fact adultery has a tenacity that marriage can only envy.

Esther Perel takes on tough questions, grappling with the obstacles and anxieties that arise when our quest for secure love conflicts with our pursuit of passion. She invites us to explore the paradoxical union of domesticity and sexual desire, and explains what it takes to bring lust home.

An affair: It can rob a couple of their relationship, their happiness, their very identity. And yet this extremely common human experience is so poorly understood. Adultery has existed since marriage was invented, and so, too, the prohibition against it - in fact it has a tenacity that marriage can only envy. Iconic couples' therapist and best-selling author of Mating in Captivity Esther Perel returns with a groundbreaking and provocative look at infidelity, arguing for a more nuanced and less judgmental conversation about our transgressions.

Un traité audacieux sur l'infidélité pour comprendre la complexité de chaque individu face au couple, à l'amour et au désir. Non, l'adultère n'est pas toujours le signe d'un couple qui ne fonctionne plus... Qu'est-ce qu'être infidèle, aujourd'hui ? Comment peut-on tromper tout en se disant heureux dans son couple ? Est-il possible d'aimer plusieurs personnes à la fois ? Tromper, est-ce forcément trahir l'autre ? Est-ce qu'une liaison peut paradoxalement aider un couple ? L'infidélité reflète parfois le besoin vital de retrouver une partie de soi qui a été perdue.

Es passiert überall auf der Welt, jetzt gerade, in diesem Moment: Ein Mensch geht fremd. Nichts löst im Beziehungsleben eines Paares mehr Angst, mehr Heimlichtuerei und zugleich mehr Faszination aus als ein One-Night-Stand oder eine Affäre. Untreue gilt als der ultimative Verrat am Partner, und sie kann uns alles rauben: eine geliebte Person, unser Glück, unseren Selbstwert, unsere Identität.

"Maintenant que la génération des baby boomers et celles qui l'ont suivie peuvent avoir autant de relations sexuelles qu'elles le veulent, elles semblent en avoir perdu l'envie..." Convaincue, après avoir suivi des centaines de couples (hétérosexuels, homosexuels, avec ou sans enfants et de tous âges), qu'il n'y a pas de fatalité au déclin du désir amoureux, Esther Perel nous livre ici une analyse révolutionnaire de ce phénomène.

Esther Perel takes on tough questions, grappling with the obstacles and anxieties that arise when our quest for secure love conflicts with our pursuit of passion. She invites us to explore the paradoxical union of domesticity and sexual desire, and explains what it takes to bring lust home.