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Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel

Esther Perel Global Media

Every Monday morning step into the office of iconic psychotherapist Esther Perel on "Where Should We Begin" and listen in as real people in search of insight bare the raw, intimate, and profound details of their stories. From breakups and…

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Can I Still Be a Good Man if I Leave? 2026-10-19 · 60m
I Want You To Want Me 2026-10-12 · 54m
I Don't Mean to Be Mean, But... 2026-10-05 · 66m
My Ex, His AI Girlfriend, And Our Kids 2026-09-28 · 53m
Good Relationships Need Better Fights 2026-09-21 · 58m
How Many Times Can You Betray Me? 2026-09-14 · 55m
On Again/Off Again 2026-08-31 · 53m
Will I Always Be Alone? 2026-08-24 · 49m
Can I Be Loved? 2026-08-17 · 37m
Am I Being Gaslit? 2026-08-10 · 36m
I Love My Partner, So Why Can’t I Let Go of My Ex? 2026-08-03 · 51m
Burdens of the Family 2026-07-27 · 42m
Is Using ChatGPT Hurting My Relationship? 2026-07-20 · 52m
You Slept With My Best Friend 2026-07-13 · 54m
My Hero Complex 2026-06-29 · 40m
20 Years Later, Esther Revisits Mating in Captivity 2026-06-22 · 44m
In This Relationship What Is "I" and What is "We"? 2026-06-15 · 47m
Are You Abandoning Me or Am I Suffocating You? 2026-06-08 · 51m
Love in the Time of AI with Kashmir Hill 2026-06-01 · 50m
To Make Room for My Brother I Learned to Disappear 2026-05-18 · 56m
I Gave Him an Ultimatum. Now What? 2026-05-11 · 58m
My Parents Got Divorced, So Why Am I Still in the Middle? 2026-05-04 · 58m
How To Start (Even When You Don't Know Where You're Going) 2026-04-27 · 55m
Is This the Person I'm Meant to Be With? 2026-04-20 · 56m
Wedding Woes About My Mom 2026-04-13 · 51m
Should I Have Another Baby? 2026-04-06 · 46m
When I'm Manic I Cheat 2026-03-30 · 51m
Love, Loneliness, and AI: Where Should We Begin? Live with Esther Perel and Spike Jonze 2026-03-23 · 57m
My AI Loves Me Better Than Anyone Ever Could 2026-03-16 · 64m
Am I Letting My Jealousy Ruin This? 2026-03-09 · 55m
Can We Repair After a 25 Year Affair? 2026-03-02 · 55m
Trapped In Their Own Story 2026-02-23 · 47m
What if Dating Isn't For Me? 2026-02-16 · 53m
I Have a Crush on a Coworker 2026-02-09 · 55m
Our Sex Life is a Disaster 2026-02-02 · 54m
I Told My Friend I Was in Love with Her, Then She Told Everyone 2026-01-26 · 49m
It's Very Hard to Live with a Saint 2026-01-19 · 43m
Was I Used for a Visa? 2026-01-12 · 55m
Can Our Love Survive Our Differences? 2026-01-05 · 60m
He Loves Her, His Family Rejects Her 2025-12-22 · 44m
The Permission to Be and Not Just the Pressure to Do 2025-12-15 · 49m
Love in War - Where Are They Now? 2025-12-08 · 53m
Mothering My Mother Into Mothering Me 2025-12-01 · 51m
You Need Help to Help Her 2025-11-24 · 49m
One Relationship. Two Truths. 2025-11-17 · 51m
The One Who Stays and the One Who Goes 2025-11-10 · 53m
In Loving You, I Learned to Love Myself 2025-11-03 · 48m
I Accidentally Dated An OnlyFans Star 2025-10-27 · 49m
The Chronic Philanderer 2025-10-20 · 47m
He Doesn't Believe in Marriage, But I Can't Let Go of the Hope 2025-10-13 · 47m
Is It Our ADHD, OCD, and PTSD? Or Is It Us? 2025-10-06 · 56m
Breaking News Has Broken Us 2025-09-29 · 52m
Will This Heartbreak Ever End? 2025-09-22 · 52m
I’m Afraid of Losing More Than Just the Business 2025-09-15 · 51m
A Secret I Can't Even Tell My Therapist 2025-09-08 · 47m
Still Single at 40 2025-08-25 · 30m
Grief Begins With Love With Julia Samuel 2025-08-18 · 37m
Friendship - My Reliable Gift 2025-08-11 · 59m
I Fell For My Best Friend 2025-08-04 · 42m
Stuck in the Middle 2025-07-28 · 28m
Two Conversations Esther Wants You To Hear From Sessions Live 2025-07-21 · 48m
Can Our College Friendship Survive Adulthood? 2025-07-14 · 62m
What Now? with Trevor Noah - Meet Esther Perel - One of My Favorite People 2025-07-07 · 132m
Never Been In a Long Term Relationship, Scared I Don't Know How To Do This 2025-06-30 · 46m
Esther says "Run!" 2025-06-23 · 52m
I Want To Fit In, But I Don't Want To Fit In 2025-06-16 · 59m
First He Loved Bombed Me And Then It Was Over 2025-06-09 · 53m
Terms & Conditions May Apply: What We All Need to Know About Modern Dating 2025-06-02 · 49m
I Took My Boss to Therapy 2025-05-19 · 63m
I Waited for You to be Ready but Now I’m 40 and Childless 2025-05-12 · 49m
I Leave First So You Can't Abandon Me 2025-05-05 · 51m
Stuck Between My Daughter and My Husband 2025-04-28 · 45m
Ms. Entitlement and Mr. Sacrifice Out on a Date 2025-04-21 · 51m
I Can't Love You the Way You Want Me To 2025-04-14 · 61m
Do You Love Me for Me or For What I Do for You? 2025-04-07 · 44m
To Forgive My Ex-Husband I Need to Forgive Myself First 2025-03-31 · 47m
You are Vocal on the Criticism But Silent on the Compliments 2025-03-24 · 60m
Esther Perel Invites Us to Imagine Our Preferred Future 2025-03-17 · 55m
Leaving the Shame Behind 2025-03-10 · 49m
No Longer Daddy's Little Girl 2025-03-03 · 44m
I Can Break up with Him But I'm Still Stuck With Myself 2025-02-24 · 36m
I Want to Feel Wanted 2025-02-17 · 50m
When the Turn On Becomes a Turn Off 2025-02-10 · 59m
I'm Keeping the Baby...Now What? 2025-02-03 · 42m
Is This Worth a Second Chance? 2025-01-27 · 60m
Are We Just Not Sexually Compatible? Part Two 2025-01-20 · 53m
Are We Just Not Sexually Compatible? 2025-01-13 · 43m
Did I Get Ghosted or Is He Just Not That Into Me? 2025-01-06 · 44m
I Don't Want to Turn Into My Mother 2024-12-16 · 51m
Grief is Like a Fingerprint 2024-12-02 · 46m
Say More - Esther Perel on Fantasy with Gillian Anderson 2024-11-18 · 55m
How Many Times Can I Forgive You? 2024-11-11 · 59m
Finding Love Would Mean Letting Go of Who I Am 2024-11-04 · 52m
You Are So Not Invited to My Wedding 2024-10-21 · 45m
Love the Child, Not the Father 2024-10-14 · 55m
Best Friends Don't Make For the Best Bosses 2024-10-07 · 46m
Say More - Miranda July and Esther Perel on The Rebirth of Desire 2024-09-23 · 52m
Why Can't I Find Someone? Is it Me? 2024-09-16 · 36m
We Had Boundaries and He Crossed Them 2024-09-09 · 63m
The Arc of Love - Happily Divorced 2024-08-26 · 58m
The Arc of Love - All The Things We Never Said 2024-08-19 · 49m
The Arc of Love - A Romantic Revival 2024-08-12 · 49m
The Arc of Love - The Other Woman 2024-08-05 · 49m
The Arc of Love - The Poly Dinner Party 2024-07-29 · 51m
The Arc of Love - A Small Town Affair 2024-07-22 · 50m
The Arc of Love - Young Love 2024-07-15 · 51m
The Arc of Love - I Don't Think I Want Kids? But My Partner Might? 2024-07-08 · 54m
You Keep Planning A Future Without Me 2024-06-24 · 52m
Four Affairs, Four Divorces. Why Do I Keep Doing This? 2024-06-17 · 52m
What If I Break Up With My Dad? 2024-06-03 · 50m
It Feels Like My Siblings Abandoned Me 2024-05-20 · 38m
Does Growing Up Mean Growing Apart? 2024-05-13 · 63m
My Mom Should Have Set a Different Example 2024-05-06 · 43m
Love is a Trap 2024-04-22 · 40m
I Think I Married the Wrong Person 2024-04-15 · 55m
My Exes Exes Keep Ruining My Relationships 2024-04-08 · 51m
Esther Perel on New AI - Artificial Intimacy 2024-04-01 · 67m
My Husband, His Other Wife, and Me 2024-03-25 · 41m
Sex, Comedy and Context: A Live Conversation with Trevor Noah 2024-03-19 · 50m
If He's A "High Value Man", What Am I? 2024-03-11 · 33m
I Love You One Day, I Hate You The Next 2024-03-04 · 53m
Say More - Ira Glass on Is This It? 2024-02-26 · 49m
I Trust You to Always Tell Me When I'm Wrong 2024-02-19 · 57m
I Lost Him, But I Lost Myself Too 2024-02-12 · 46m
He Wants it Everyday, She Wants it Never 2024-02-05 · 55m
As They Like Me More, I Like Myself Less 2024-01-29 · 59m
Part of Me Wants to Cheat Part Two 2024-01-25 · 34m
Part of Me Wants to Cheat Part One 2024-01-22 · 45m
Now That I Have A Girlfriend, I Never Want To Leave My Wife 2024-01-15 · 58m
Am I Just Your Placeholder? 2024-01-08 · 33m
Non-Negotiables in the New Year | From Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris 2024-01-03 · 57m
Say More - Neil Patrick Harris on Friendship 2023-12-18 · 34m
My Emotional Inheritance 2023-12-04 · 42m
Is This Survivor's Guilt? 2023-11-27 · 41m
She's Out, He's Still In. 2023-11-13 · 58m
Depleted Mothers Club 2023-11-06 · 31m
A Marriage Organized Around Trauma 2023-10-30 · 56m
A Hospital Divided 2023-10-16 · 59m
I Left. Now I Want My Wife Back. 2023-10-09 · 43m
Tell Me I'm Not Alone 2023-10-02 · 43m
Self Love Isn't Something I Grew Up With 2023-09-25 · 39m
How's Work? - The Preacher's Wife Part Two 2023-09-18 · 42m
How's Work? - The Preacher's Wife 2023-09-11 · 52m
My Brother's Wife Ruined Our Relationship 2023-08-28 · 28m
I Want Her to Like Me Less 2023-08-14 · 28m
I Crossed a Line I Never Thought I Would Cross 2023-08-07 · 32m
I've Had Better 2023-07-31 · 50m
Long Distance and Lost 2023-07-24 · 54m
Am I Being Gaslit? 2023-07-17 · 37m
Donor Daddy 2023-07-10 · 53m
Esther Perel is back in session... weekly 2023-06-27 · 2m
Love In War with Esther Perel: Ukraine 2023-03-11 · 58m
I Need Her to See Me 2022-06-23 · 28m
Esther Calling - Still Single at 40 2022-06-16 · 28m
We Started As An Affair 2022-06-09 · 55m
Esther Calling - Stuck In the Middle 2022-06-02 · 25m
I Deserve to Be a Mother 2022-05-26 · 32m
Having Needs Doesn't Make You Needy 2022-05-12 · 18m
My Orgasm Is Not Just For Me 2022-05-05 · 55m
Twice Married, To Each Other 2022-04-28 · 54m
Will He Make The Space For Me 2022-01-20 · 17m
It's a Matter of Pride 2022-01-13 · 19m
I Can Be Strong and Be Taken Care Of 2021-12-30 · 56m
I Don't Mean to Be Mean, But... 2021-12-23 · 64m
An Intimate Evening with Esther Perel 2021-12-16 · 17m
Before We Got Together I Identified As Gay 2021-12-09 · 56m
Where Are They Now - A Romantic Revival 2021-12-02 · 51m
Friendship - My Reliable Gift 2021-11-25 · 60m
Losing My Best Friend 2021-11-18 · 19m
My Partner's Privilege 2021-11-11 · 19m
He Gets the Respect, She Gets the Toilet Paper | How's Work? 2021-10-07 · 59m
If I Quit, What Will People Say? | How's Work? 2021-09-30 · 56m
Couples Under Lockdown: Lagos, Nigeria 2020-05-14 · 54m
Couples Under Lockdown: New York, New York 2020-04-16 · 49m
Couples Under Lockdown: Bavaria, Germany 2020-04-02 · 54m
Couples Under Lockdown: Sicily, Italy 2020-03-24 · 50m
Prologue 2017-05-17 · 2m
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