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Esther Perel Quotes & Sayings

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Women want to talk first, connect first, then have sex. For men, sex is the connection. Sex is man's language of intimacy — Esther Perel

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. — Esther Perel

I got rid of my motorcycle when Jimmy was born. I'm not allowed to die in a bike crash anymore. — Esther Perel

Eroticism thrives in the space between the self and the other. — Esther Perel

The body often contains emotional truths that words can too easily gloss over. — Esther Perel

When there is nothing left to hide, there is nothing left to seek. — Esther Perel

In my community there were two groups of people, There were the ones who did not die and the ones who came back to life. — Esther Perel

Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness. — Esther Perel

The attraction of dating is that you don't take yes for granted - - you're fully engaged, there's seductiveness, tension. — Esther Perel

Eroticism. Though I doubt that they ever used this word, they embodied its mystical meaning as a quality of aliveness, a pathway to freedom — Esther Perel

In dating, if you say no, your lover goes on to the next person. In marriage, if you say no, the person stays. — Esther Perel

There's something very full in knowing that your partner accepts you as is. — Esther Perel

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship — Esther Perel

It's hard to experience desire when you're weighted down by concern. — Esther Perel

We're walking contradictions, seeking safety and predictability on one hand and thriving on diversity on the other. — Esther Perel

It's hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy. — Esther Perel

Oscar Wilde wrote, "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is getting what one wants, and the other is not getting it." When — Esther Perel

Today, monogamy is one person at a time. — Esther Perel

The ability to go anywhere in our imagination is a pure expression of individual freedom. It is a creative force that can help us transcend reality. — Esther Perel

Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance. — Esther Perel

Sex is about where you can take me, not what you can do to me. — Esther Perel

You never know your partner as well as you think. — Esther Perel

there is more than a hint of arrogance in the assumption that we can make our relationships permanent, — Esther Perel

When we seek the gaze of another, it isn't always our partner we're turning away from, but the person we have ourselves become. — Esther Perel

Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who we are. — Esther Perel

There is no neediness in desire ... there is no caretaking in desire. Caretaking is mightily loving, [but] it's a powerful anti-aphrodisiac. — Esther Perel

The more we trust, the farther we are able to venture. — Esther Perel

What is the relationship between love and desire? How do they relate, and how do they conflict? ... Therein lies the mystery of eroticism. — Esther Perel

We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt. — Esther Perel

The smaller we feel in the world, the more we need to shine in the eyes of our partner. — Esther Perel

Love is an exercise in selective perception — Esther Perel

My husband deals with pain; I deal with pleasure. They are intimately acquainted. — Esther Perel

Everyone should cultivate a secret garden. — Esther Perel

We no longer get work out of our children; today we get meaning. — Esther Perel

Mystery is not always about travelling to new places, it is about looking with new eyes. — Esther Perel