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Mating in Captivity

How to keep desire and passion alive in long-term relationships

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Mating in Captivity

By: Esther Perel
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"Esther Perel is magic...What she knows about relationships, love, sex and everything in between will...inspire you and help you unlock all the answers you've been looking for." - Steven Bartlett

"Esther Perel's greatest gift is her intuitive insight into the human heart and mind, she really blows me away." - Oprah Winfrey

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A bold, provocative new take on intimacy and sex in modern romance

World-renowned psychotherapist and relationship expert Esther Perel looks at the story of sex in committed couples, exploring the complex interplay between love and desire in long-term relationships. Can we desire what we already have? What does it take to keep lust alive?

Drawing on over thirty years' experience counselling couples, Perel reconciles the erotic with the domestic, offering practical insights and advice for reigniting the spark that may have faded over time. Through case studies and lively discussion, Perel shows us how we can foster and unlock the key to more exciting, playful and even poetic sex in long-term relationships.

Smart, witty and explosively original, Mating in Captivity will transform the way you live and love.

"Mating in Captivity...articulates a poignant and unacknowledged modern crisis for the first time." - The Evening Standard

"Perel's ideas are like the chorus of a really good pop song - instantly familiar because they resonate deeply." - Observer©2007 Esther Perel Relationships
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I am a huge fan of Esther‘s work and found so much perspective and new understanding for relationships and our human condition. Really engaging, thorough, honest and her accent is incredibly charming. Feels like an intimate conversation!

Essential Reading

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I loved the book, very insightful. I only wish it were longer. Esther's voice makes it sound like it speaks directly to you.

Excellent book

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Thank you for the book I was thinking about it and it was so happy to listen 🎧. I recommend this book for every couple . It is important to know from where we coming from, and as the book says we have to know how we find each other.

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Esther Perel is a charismatic thinker and writer. Her thoughts on eroticism are extremely challenging, her ideas on the way psychology works in the context of erotic relationships are so honest, they feel like looking yourself in a maximising mirror. Her work is simply groundbreaking in our simplistic, puritanical, sin/shame-oriented societies.
Her work derives from her experience with couples of all kinds of social, cultural and sexual backgrounds (except transgender couples).
This book is a treasure. I would say especially for young people who wonder about matters of sex, eroticism, phantasies, realities, and for parents.

Rebellious, inspirational, refreshing

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thanks to this book I understand the difficulties in my relationship better and know how to tackle them.

An eye-opener!

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