Esther Perel
Belgian-American psychotherapist and author of Mating in Captivity and The State of Affairs; hosts the podcast Where Should We Begin? and writes on desire, commitment and infidelity in couples.
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Their wordsBreaking it down into parts—and giving those parts names—is crucial to our health, safety, and sanity.
↗What Is This Feeling? Anticipatory Grief and Other New Pandemic-Related Emotionsestherperel.com
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Their wordsThe first step in stress-regulation is our ability to identify and articulate our feelings, whether it’s to ourselves, our diaries, or our loved ones.
↗What Is This Feeling? Anticipatory Grief and Other New Pandemic-Related Emotionsestherperel.com
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Their wordsif you are not aware and accepting of your own feelings, then you won’t connect with the feelings of the people around you. You may even shut them down because you don’t allow your own.
↗What Is This Feeling? Anticipatory Grief and Other New Pandemic-Related Emotionsestherperel.com
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Their wordsAs almost all of our communal institutions give way to a heightened sense of individualism, we look more frequently to our partner to provide the emotional and physical resources that a village or community used to provide.
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Their wordsThese expectations are extremely difficult for us to provide to one another because they are contradictory, or even in some cases incompatible.
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Our reading
Love, desire and relationships are not commodities that can be replaced when they disappoint.
Their wordsWe can stop thinking of love, desire, and relationships as commodities. They are not.