Ask yourself who the most famous living psychologist is right now, and you’d probably land on Esther Perel. Her podcast, Where Should We Begin?, in which she speaks to one couple per episode in an ...

During the course of a long-term relationship, priorities shift and sometimes your partner takes a back seat to health, family, or work stressors. Sometimes they are in that back seat for a very long ...

Esther Perel is the inspiration for a character in Olivia Wilde's The Invite and is celebrating the 20th anniversary of her groundbreaking book Mating in Captivity.

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Relationship guru Esther Perel is bringing her advice to Substack. The psychotherapist, podcaster, and ...

Fighting with a partner: We’ve all done it—and most of us would say that, at times, we’ve done it badly. We’ve either said something we later regret or failed to say the right thing. A fight that ...

Perel’s thesis was – remains – this: loving ­relationships need closeness and security to thrive. They need to feel safe; we need to feel safe within them. But sex and passion (“I prefer ‘eroticism’,” ...