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Esther Perel: What Makes Relationships Thrive

A Life of Greatness

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The Central Agent of Eroticism Is in Our Imagination

The central agent of eroticism is in our imagination. We have the capacity to anticipate and to project even when it's not happening but experience it as if it was happening. I find rule breaking very, very freeing because the only one of the main times I know that I'm doing what I want is when I'm doing something I'm not supposed to do. Or anytime I actually have a little rule in my own head and then I say, eh, I find the transgression liberating, empowering and freeing.

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