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Listen to the incomparable therapist Esther Perel counsel real couples as they reveal the most intimate, personal, and complicated details of the conflicts that have brought them to her door...
When a mom reaches out on her daughter’s behalf, an old family dynamic comes into focus. A woman finds herself caught between her two divorc...
As work becomes the place we look for identity, stability, and meaning, the stakes feel higher than ever. Esther invites you in for a live c...
They arrive in Esther’s office at a crossroads. A year ago, they decided to de-escalate their relationship: to transition from romantic part...
She’s getting married soon, but before she walks down the aisle, she wants to walk toward her mother with more understanding. Years of compl...
When we become parents, many of us quietly promise ourselves that we won't be like our parents. We're going to do it differently. This week’...
This is a classic session of Where Should We Begin? Bipolar, infidelity, open relationship: they're stuck in a world of loaded words. Her fr...
More than a decade ago, the film Her imagined a love story between a human and an artificial intelligence. Today, it no longer feels like fi...
He knows she isn't real, but his feelings for her are. When he set out to build a personal assistant, he didn’t expect to fall in love. What...
A divorced woman calls Esther to untangle a new love that brings both exhilaration and heartache. She is in a relationship with a married ma...
Through forty years of marriage, they built a life together. They immigrated to the United States, raised children, grew a business, and est...
This is a classic session of Where Should We Begin? Their whole relationship is based on one big misunderstanding, with infidelity on both s...
She's 26 and has never been in a relationship that made her feel happier or more fulfilled than when she's single. She's questioning whether...
She has a crush on her coworker, which feels thrilling and unsettling all at once. Fresh off a divorce and shaped by earlier relationships m...
We hear from a couple who have long been happy in their marriage, except for one thing: their sex life. In moments of intimacy, one freezes,...
Esther speaks with a young man whose confession of love for a close friend sets off a chain reaction he never expected. After exposing his l...
This is a classic session of Where Should We Begin? Barely a year into marriage, they're trapped in a cycle of explosive conflict. She can d...
She comes to Esther reeling from the end of a five-year relationship marked by love, deceit, and manipulation. After discovering her partner...
They met dancing, and it was love at first sight. But only after they began dating did they realize the vast differences between them: diffe...
This is a classic session of Where Should We Begin? She left her life, her family and her country for a man she met on Reddit. Their love is...
He comes to Esther with a question about how to feel worthy without constantly having to prove himself. For him, it’s not just personal, it’...
Three years after Esther spoke with a Ukrainian couple separated by war, she calls them back to learn where they are now and whether their r...
Since the age of 8, she’s been the one holding her mother together and shouldering adult responsibilities long before her time. Now, as an a...
This is a classic session of Where Should We Begin? A husband and wife are united in their desire to help their daughter, two years after sh...
She’s reeling from a relationship that brought both deep love and deep betrayal. After discovering that her boyfriend had been lying about t...
They met in vet school and married just as they reached graduation. But now his work takes him around the world, forcing them to live apart...
She unknowingly changed the course of his life, and he's loved her ever since. It's been decades, and even though he now dates men, he wonde...
Post-breakup rumination is a familiar spiral. We replay the signs, question our judgment, and wonder how we didn’t see it coming. This week,...
This is a classic session of Where Should We Begin? He's been cheating on her for years, and she's had enough. Now she wants to know: is he...
When her younger sister gets engaged, a woman finds herself spiraling with unexpected grief and frustration. She’s spent years in relationsh...
A couple sits down with Esther Perel to untangle trust, control, and intimacy after becoming parents. He feels weighed down by anxiety and r...
This is a classic session of How's Work? A large and scattered network of journalists meet for a virtual session with Esther. Over the past...
Nothing changes us quite like our first love—or our first heartbreak. After falling in love for the first time in his late twenties, he now...
She’s watching the company she co-founded unravel—strained partnerships, family entanglements, and the weight of guilt, anger, and responsib...
Their marriage was turbulent and the divorce is now two years behind her—but she still can’t let him go. Torn between the part of her that k...
In this classic Esther Calling, Esther meets a man who’s never been in a relationship for more than five months. As he approaches age 40, he...
Psychotherapist and bestselling author Julia Samuel invites us into a profound exploration of the twin forces of love and loss. With warmth...
This is a classic session of Where Should We Begin? In a Where Should We Begin first, Esther sits down with two friends. They’ve been close...
He fell in love with his best friend. But when his best friend reconnected with an ex, it was too much to bear and he had to end the friends...
He prides himself on being an empathic confidante to his friends…but is it to a fault? In this classic episode of Esther Calling, we meet a...
Esther presents two conversations you have to hear from her clinical conference, Sessions Live. Listen in as psychiatrist and narrative ther...
Friendship is a key thread of the social fabric. But what happens when the thread starts to fray? They met in college and have been close fo...
This week on Where Should We Begin we are sharing a very special episode of What Now? with Trevor Noah. Esther joins Trevor for a heartfelt...
He's 42 and is in his first real relationship. And he's panicking. He's afraid he doesn't know how to be in a true romantic partnership. Wit...
Does loving him come with a price? After four months of dating, he’s asking her to cut ties with all of her exes. Is this a sign of love and...
She is a single mother by choice. She lives in a very tight knit community with very traditional values. Now that her child is almost one, s...
She's grappling with the aftermath of a tumultuous relationship with a narcissistic partner. First, he love bombed her and made her feel spe...
Dating often comes with a lot of questions. Who gets to say what they want? Who gets to be chosen? Who gets to choose? Should I stay on/off...
This is a classic session, from the second season of How's Work? From day one, they’ve described their relationship as “tumultuous," but the...
They were in love for 6 years and building a life together. They froze embryos and agreed on a timeline for getting pregnant. But when the t...
This week, Esther talks to a caller who often feels let down by her friends. She longs for deeper and more meaningful relationships and worr...