Quotes by : Esther Perel

For [erotically intelligent couples], love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and....

We're walking contradictions, seeking safety and predictability on one hand and thriving on diversity....

But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking....

The ability to go anywhere in our imagination is a pure expression of individual freedom. It is a creative....

It's hard to experience desire when you're weighted down by concern.

When we are children, play comes to us naturally, but our capacity for play collapses as we age. Sex....

In my work, I see couples who no longer wait for an invitation into their partner's interiority, but....

Modern relationships are cauldrons of contradictory longings: safety and excitement, grounding and transcendence,....

At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing....

The body often contains emotional truths that words can too easily gloss over.