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The Parents' Guide to Doing It with Esther Perel

The Longest Shortest Time

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The Secret Story of Satiated Parenting

Don't think of it as sex with your husband. It's that part of you, because if you become 100% only mom, what's going to start to happen when you deprive the relationship of that replenishment is that we recruit the children. "Satiated means not just I've given the whole day but also I've received," she says. The notion that one could let go, that one could be greedy, is an old taboo that we are breaking.

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