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Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic (HarperCollins, 2006)

Esther Perel · c. 2006

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  1. Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery.
  2. Call me an idealist, but I believe that love and desire are not mutually exclusive, they just don’t always take place at the same time
  3. Intimacy becomes intrusion rather than closeness
  4. But too often, as couples settle into the comforts of love, they cease to fan the flame of desire. They forget that fire needs air.
  5. In other words, eroticism thrives in the space between the self and the other.

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