This chapter delves into the complexities of relationships, highlighting the importance of embracing contradictory beliefs and feelings simultaneously. It explores the tension between love and desire, security and adventure, and the need for both safety and excitement in relationships. The speaker emphasizes moving away from binary thinking and embracing the complexities of human needs and desires.
I’m talking to Esther Perel, psychotherapist, New York Times bestselling author, and podcaster, about relationships in the pandemic and beyond. She blew my mind around some patterns that Steve and I have discovered over the past months in lockdown. We also talk a lot about paradox and straddling the tension of two competing ideas that can both be true. It’s maddening and inspiring. And you’ll hear in real time how I’m wowed, impressed, and completely Esther Perel-ed before it’s all over.
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