Sex? After Kids? Tell Me More, Esther Perel - Revisit

Hi, Esther.

Hello, Becky.

I am so excited to have you on the podcast, and when I told the members of our community that you were coming on, people, I don't know a more sophisticated way of saying it, they freaked out.

They just freaked out.

[laughs]

They're so excited.

Um, and I join them in that feeling, so I'm, I'm just so happy that you're here.

It's a treat, really.

So for anybody listening who is not familiar with you or your work, tell us a little bit about who you are and the types of things you're interested in.

So I'm a couples and family therapist.

I was trained particularly in working with families and with couples, and I've had a predilection for working with people from multiple different cultural, racial, and religious backgrounds.

I spent many, many years actually working with mixed families.

Then I brought to that the subject of sexuality because it was also a cultural lens of how we look at sexuality in our relationships.

And I am the author of two books, Mating in Captivity and The State of Affairs.

I have two podcasts, Where Should We Begin and How Is Work, which both feature anonymous, raw, live couples therapy sessions, one in the romantic sphere, one in the workplace, where I invite you to come behind closed doors and see what really happens in the lives of couples behind closed doors.

But this is what you do with parents.

You do something very similar.

You bring the parents out of their isolation, out of their shame, out of their, you know, "This is just happening to me," thing.

"Why can everybody else have normal kids and handle situations well?" And, uh, and you create a community for the challenges of parenthood today, like I try to create a global community for the challenges of modern love.