Marriage isn't meant to make you happy - it's there because it gives you a life in which you can find happiness.

- Esther Perel

People cheat on each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, lack of respect, years of refusal of intimacy. Che…

- Esther Perel

At this point, we are living one of the greatest experiments in humankind - to create something that has, throughout history, been considered a contr…

- Esther Perel

Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.

- Esther Perel

Very often we don’t go elsewhere because we are looking for another person. We go elsewhere because we are looking for another self. It isn’t so much…

- Esther Perel

Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery.

- Esther Perel

Women want to talk first, connect first, then have sex. For men, sex is the connection. Sex is man's language of intimacy

- Esther Perel

Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of…

- Esther Perel

Mystery is not always about travelling to new places, it is about looking with new eyes.

- Esther Perel