Podcasts by Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel
Every Monday morning step into the office of iconic psychotherapist Esther Perel and listen in as real people in search of insight bare the raw, intimate, and profound details of their stories. From breakups and open relationships to workplace conflicts and fractures in the family, it’s a place to hear our own stories reflected in the lives of others. So…where should we begin? Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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Esther Calling - It's a Matter of Pride from 2022-01-13T11:00
In another episode of Esther Calling, he worries his desire for a serious relationship is putting women off. But early in their phone call, it becomes clear to Esther that he’s talking about a part...
ListenI Can Be Strong and Be Taken Care Of from 2021-12-30T11:00
As Esther says, love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who we are. But when one partner grows up as the child taking care of his mother is it any surprise that he experiences the rom...
ListenI Don't Mean to Be Mean, But... from 2021-12-23T11:00
She has no boundaries, he’s walled off. And their opposing communication styles cause immediate tension in this explosive session. So much so, that Esther finds herself adding to the chorus of angr...
ListenAn Intimate Evening with Esther Perel from 2021-12-16T11:00
You are invited to an intimate evening with Esther Perel. In place of this week's session we gather for a few rounds of Where Should We Begin, A Game of Stories. Over the last year to curtail the l...
ListenBefore We Got Together I Identified As Gay from 2021-12-09T11:00
Before they got together, he identified as straight and they identified as gay. What does it mean to make space for their queer identity while they date a straight man? And is that possible as they...
ListenWhere Are They Now - A Romantic Revival from 2021-12-02T11:00
For the first time on the podcast, Esther invites a couple back to her office for a second session. 10 years ago, his first wife took her own life. A year later he met his current wife and she beca...
ListenFriendship - My Reliable Gift from 2021-11-25T11:00
In a Where Should We Begin first, Esther sits down with two friends. They’ve been close for so long they feel like brothers, with all of the baggage that comes with family but none of the certainty...
ListenEsther Calling - Losing My Best Friend from 2021-11-18T11:00
In this second episode of Esther Calling, we meet a woman who feels she is losing her best friend. The caller feels that her friend is rushing into a marriage to someone she doesn’t approve of. Dur...
ListenEsther Calling - My Partner's Privilege from 2021-11-11T11:00
This time there is no couch, but instead an unexpected phone call from Esther to a woman who is struggling with the differences between her and her partner's upbringing. He grew up in a comfortable...
ListenSeason Five Trailer from 2021-10-19T10:00
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ListenHe Gets the Respect, She Gets the Toilet Paper | How's Work? from 2021-10-07T10:00
Married for ten years and co-owners for seven, they bring their home dynamic to work with them. Their employees are sick of the fights and the struggles for power and control, and so are they. Mean...
ListenIf I Quit, What Will People Say? | How's Work? from 2021-09-30T10:00
He’s a doctor, she works for the government. Her job is one thing on paper, and another thing in secret. He wants to leave his job, but doesn’t know how. When their busy careers come crashing to a ...
ListenIntroducing Season 2 of How's Work? from 2021-04-06T10:00
Today we're sharing the first episode from season 2 of Esther's other podcast, How's Work? In it Esther focuses on the hard conversations we're afraid to have in our jobs, bringing a new perspectiv...
ListenOn Again/Off Again from 2020-09-10T10:00
They've been on and off for almost 20 years. While she takes cares of his and their child, she wants to know that he's also there for her. He's been battling depression for years. And the shame tha...
ListenTrapped in Their Own Story from 2020-09-03T10:00
Their whole relationship is based on one big misunderstanding, with infidelity and blame on both sides. Years later, they still can't see the other's perspective. Programming note: This conversatio...
ListenBurdens of the Family from 2020-08-27T10:00
They share a legacy of war, a refugee upbringing, and family trauma. Their marriage was seen as taboo, and now they're trying to build a happier relationship for their child. Programming note: This...
ListenHe Loves Her, His Family Rejects Her from 2020-08-20T10:00
She left her life, her family and her country for a man she met on Reddit. Their love is real, but his family has been hell. Programming note: This conversation was recorded before the COVID-19 loc...
ListenWhen I'm Manic I Cheat from 2020-08-13T10:00
Bipolar, infidelity, open relationships: they're stuck in a world of loaded words. Her friends are convinced she should leave, but she doesn't want to follow in her mother's footsteps. Programming ...
ListenIt's Very Hard to Live with a Saint from 2020-08-06T10:00
Barely a year into marriage, they're trapped in a cycle of explosive conflict. She can do no right, and he can do no wrong. Programming note: This conversation was recorded before the COVID-19 lock...
ListenIn This Relationship What Is "I" and What Is "We"? from 2020-07-23T10:00
They grew up with traumatic backgrounds, met in college and immigrated to the U.S. together. They've built stability and security, and now one of them longs for more freedom. Programming note: This...
ListenThe Chronic Philanderer from 2020-07-16T10:00
He's been cheating on her for years, and she's had enough. Now she wants to know: is he in or is he out? Programming note: This conversation was recorded before the COVID-19 lockdown.Learn more abo...
ListenWhat Would It Take For You to Come Out? from 2020-07-09T10:00
Four years in, she can't admit she's attracted to her girlfriend, and her family still doesn't know. Programming note: This conversation was recorded before the COVID-19 lockdown.Learn more about y...
ListenYou Want Me To Watch The Kids While You Go Out With Another Guy? from 2020-07-09T10:00
They met as religious teenagers and married as virgins. It's the age old story — once you're allowed to be intimate, you no longer want to be. Deciding to open the marriage has brought about huge c...
ListenSeason Four Trailer from 2020-06-18T16:00
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ListenCouples Under Lockdown: Lagos, Nigeria from 2020-05-14T18:55
Last summer they left everything they'd built in Seattle for a chance at a very different life. He took a dream turn to expand his company and be closer to home; she gave up her nursing job to mana...
ListenCouples Under Lockdown: New York, New York from 2020-04-16T20:00
They have three kids and their volatile marriage has fallen apart. She still hopes to rebuild. He can't get out of there fast enough. Two weeks before COVID-19 forced New Yorkers to shelter in plac...
ListenCouples Under Lockdown: Bavaria, Germany from 2020-04-02T23:00
For the last year they have lived in separate countries. She took a dream job closer to where she grew up in Germany and he stayed behind with the promise he would follow soon. Six months turned in...
ListenCouples Under Lockdown: Sicily, Italy from 2020-03-24T21:00
They left each other emotionally years ago, but with three kids they have been trying to keep it together. For the last two weeks they find themselves confined to a small apartment in Sicily, Italy...
ListenEsther Perel's New Show: How's Work? from 2020-02-26T21:53
Today we’re sharing the first episode of Esther Perel’s new show How’s Work? In it, Esther sits down with coworkers, cofounders and colleagues, and brings her inimitable perspective to workplace re...
ListenHappily Divorced from 2019-11-21T09:00
They’re a divorced couple whose two-household relationship may prove that a happy family doesn’t have to end with divorce. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
ListenMom and Monique from 2019-11-14T09:00
They’re a child desperate to connect with their single mother after 28 years of living in the shadow of a special-needs brother. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
ListenThe Other Woman from 2019-10-31T08:00
She wonders if she can satisfy her attraction to women without losing the husband she loves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
ListenA Small Town Affair from 2019-10-24T08:00
Their relationship started with an affair that ended two marriages. Now they wonder if there’s enough trust there to build something stable together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcast...
ListenYoung Love from 2019-10-17T08:00
She lives in Mexico, he lives in the US. Their immigration status has forced them to consider marriage sooner than they might have planned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.co...
ListenSeason Three Trailer from 2019-03-08T06:00
A new season of Where Should We Begin? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
ListenI Don't Want to Be Your Caregiver, I Want to Be Your Wife from 2018-04-27T11:35
Almost two years ago her husband was diagnosed with early onset Parkinson's Disease. They have three kids, a mortgage to pay, and he has developed some compulsive behaviors he isn't proud of. Esth...
ListenI've Had 100 Conversations with You in My Head from 2018-04-20T03:00
[Contains mature themes] After a discovery in her doctor's office, a woman realizes her husband has been unfaithful. While betrayed and angry, she still feels a desire to stick it out for the sake ...
ListenYou Can Be Right or You Can Be Married from 2018-04-13T03:00
[Contains mature themes] They’ve been together for more than a decade, but this isn’t the first time they’ve separated. Stuck in a cycle of explosive escalations, a husband and wife want to make it...
ListenQuestions You Aren't Allowed to Ask from 2018-04-06T03:00
[Contains mature themes] What began as an eight-year affair between two women has stretched into a 19-year partnership. But despite their private commitment to one another, they’ve never quite mana...
ListenLeaving the Shame Behind from 2018-03-30T03:00
A young couple has endured a series of crises early in their marriage, from a benign brain tumor to a serious car crash to the husband’s near-fatal heart attack. Following his recovery, he’s adapti...
ListenMs. Entitlement and Mr. Sacrifice Out On a Date from 2018-03-23T03:00
[Contains mature themes] An on-again, off-again couple in their fifties, dating in a post-divorce landscape, are struggling with different world views, priorities and sexual interests. Recognizing ...
ListenI Want to Feel Wanted from 2018-03-16T03:00
After ten years, a husband tells his wife he no longer wishes to be married. A month later, stuck in limbo, they come to Esther. She helps them have an honest conversation about their expectations,...
ListenYou Need Help to Help Her from 2018-03-09T02:00
[Contains mature themes] A husband and wife are united in their desire to help their daughter, two years after she suffered a breakdown and moved home, shutting herself off from her family and frie...
ListenI Can’t Give You a Child from 2017-12-01T01:30
[Contains mature themes] A woman realizes she doesn’t want to have children and comes to Esther for help expressing this to her husband, who passionately wishes to be a father. But often the storie...
ListenTrauma Doesn’t Like to be Touched from 2017-11-24T01:00
[Contains mature themes] A newly-married couple comes to Esther for guidance on how to create a space of safety and physical intimacy, while also giving voice to past trauma.Learn more about your a...
ListenSexlessness from 2017-11-17T03:00
[Contains mature themes] A couple are first-generation children of immigrants, raised to believe sex should only take place in a marriage. Now that sex isn’t forbidden, it’s deeply uninteresting…to...
ListenTell Me I'm Not Alone from 2017-11-10T01:00
[Contains mature themes] A young family, a ten-year age difference, and a wife who found independence through an extra-marital relationship. They’ve decided to forgive and rebuild, but the pain of ...
ListenThere's You There's Me and There's Us from 2017-11-03T00:30
[Contains mature themes] They have been together for 17 years, best friends and partners who, despite their loving and positive relationship, go months without connecting sexually. Learn more about...
ListenImpotent Is No Way to Define a Man from 2017-10-27T02:30
[Contains Mature themes.] A man has struggled with impotence for over two decades. His wife, in despair over her feelings of hopelessness in the bedroom, seeks relief for her sexual frustration and...
ListenThe Addict from 2017-10-20T00:30
[Contains mature themes] They’re grandparents, with a 40-year love story and a stable, happy marriage. But one of them had quite a few secrets. Esther gives them some tools to navigate and support ...
ListenSpeak to Me in French from 2017-10-08T23:30
[Contains mature themes] A husband and wife met while deeply committed to the evangelical faith and didn’t kiss until their wedding day; for her, that kiss felt like “kissing her brother.” Esther g...
ListenMotherless Women from 2017-10-08T23:00
[Contains mature themes] A couple with two small children are at physical and emotional odds in their relationship. One has given herself over entirely to the children, while the other struggles to...
ListenI've Had Better from 2017-10-08T22:30
[Contains mature themes] He reached out because a year after the discovery of his affair, they aren’t fighting anymore, but they certainly haven’t moved on. Esther guides them towards a more honest...
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