Esther Perel Quotes
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In dating, if you say no, your lover goes on to the next person. In marriage, if you say no, the person stays.
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Everyone should cultivate a secret garden.
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Affairs can be powerful detonators. They can invigorate a marriage that's flat, jolt people out of years of complacency. Fear of loss rekindles desire, makes people have conversations they haven't had in years, takes them out of their contrived illusion of safety.
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You never know your partner as well as you think.
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It's our imagination that's responsible for love, not the other person.
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Sex is about where you can take me, not what you can do to me.
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Most of us will get turned on at night by the very same things that we will demonstrate against during the day - the erotic mind is not very politically correct.
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Today, our sexuality is an open-ended personal project; it is part of who we are, an identity, and no longer merely something we do.
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It isn’t so much that we want to leave the person we are with as we want to leave the person we have become.
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Marriage isn't meant to make you happy - it's there because it gives you a life in which you can find happiness.
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One of the most amazing abilities of sexuality is to momentarily transcend the borders of Self into something that is no longer defined by physical property and that is utterly unique. It's really what many call a religious experience.
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Success, to me, is helping one person or many people counter the isolation and pseudoconnectivity of our lives by boosting their ability to connect to themselves and to others.