Intimacy, Emotional Baggage, Relationship Longevity, and More – Esther Perel on The Tim Ferriss Show
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Intimacy, Emotional Baggage, Relationship Longevity, and More – Esther Perel on The Tim Ferriss Show
In a world where so many long-term relationships suffer much more from monotony and habituation than from unsettling feelings like jealousy, this erotic wrath may serve a purpose, if we are willing to bear the attendant vulnerability.
relationships, we find value in applying that lens to our marriage. Being aware of how the other person feels, allowing each other time to speak and share ideas, and prioritizing a relationship in which each partner feels safe to take risks has helped us create a marriage and a life more rewarding and abundant than we have ever experienced before.
Would there not therefore be a certain wisdom in redrawing our expectations, depathologizing and destigmatizing our so-called ‘failures’ and sometimes just turning over to the other side of the bed, ready to accept without rancour, with stoic calm, some of the necessary compromises of long-term love?