Trevor enlists the help of noted therapist Esther Perel to help design the perfect relationship model. They talk through all the phases–where to find someone, the perfect date, defining the relationship, weathering storms, sex, and even how to end things. Nothing’s off the table! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What insights does Esther Perel offer on relationships?
I love roller coasters. And I remember saying to my friends once, one of the things I love most about roller coasters is that people spend most of their time complaining that the line is so long and that they don't get to ride. They get into the roller coaster and then they spend most of the ride screaming, saying, I wish it would stop. Just get me out of here. Get me out of here.
Get me out of here. Get me out of here. And then after the ride, they go, ah, that was so much fun. I want to do it again. Oh, I don't ever want to do that again. And in a way, it sounds like the relationship is a roller coaster. And then it becomes our ability to remember that we wanted a bit of a loop. And we also remember when to hold on to the harness.
Some couples live on a roller coaster and they like the edge feeling of it. And some people don't want to live on the edge.
They want to live in the line and then ride a roller coaster.
They go to the other things at the fair.
They just want to go eat and sit in the cups that spin.
Or the little round. Yes, yes. Oh, the Ferris wheel.
Okay.
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