
Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel
Esther Perel Global Media - estherperel.com
Latest episode: Mon Oct 27 2025
Every Monday morning step into the office of iconic psychotherapist Esther Perel and listen in as real people in search of insight bare the raw, intimate, and profound details of their stories. From breakups and open relationships to workplace conflicts and fractures in the family, it’s a place to hear our own stories reflected in the lives of others. So…where should we begin? Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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Oct27Esther Calling - I Accidentally Dated An OnlyFans Star49mins
Oct20The Chronic Philanderer46mins
Oct13Esther Calling - He Doesn't Believe in Marriage, But I Can't Let Go of the Hope47mins
Oct6Is It Our ADHD, OCD, and PTSD? Or Is It Us?55mins
Sep29Breaking News Has Broken Us52mins
Sep22Esther Calling - Will This Heartbreak Ever End?51mins
Sep15Esther Calling - I’m Afraid of Losing More Than Just the Business51mins
Sep8Esther Calling - A Secret I Can't Even Tell My Therapist47mins
Aug25Esther Calling - Still Single at 4029mins
Aug18Grief Begins With Love With Julia Samuel36mins
Aug11Friendship - My Reliable Gift58mins
Aug4Esther Calling - I Fell For My Best Friend42mins
Jul28Esther Calling - Stuck in the Middle28mins
Jul21Two Conversations Esther Wants You To Hear From Sessions Live48mins
Jul14Can Our College Friendship Survive Adulthood?61mins
Jul7What Now? with Trevor Noah - Meet Esther Perel - One of My Favorite People132mins
Jun30Esther Calling - Never Been In a Long Term Relationship, Scared I Don't Know How To Do This46mins
Jun23Esther Calling - Esther says "Run!"51mins
Jun16Esther Calling - I Want To Fit In, But I Don't Want To Fit In58mins
Jun9Esther Calling - First He Loved Bombed Me And Then It Was Over53mins
Jun2Terms & Conditions May Apply: What We All Need to Know About Modern Dating49mins
May19I Took My Boss to Therapy62mins
May12Esther Calling - I Waited for You to be Ready but Now I’m 40 and Childless49mins
May5Esther Calling - I Leave First So You Can't Abandon Me51mins
Apr28Esther Calling - Stuck Between My Daughter and My Husband45mins
Apr14I Can't Love You the Way You Want Me To60mins
Apr7Esther Calling - Do You Love Me for Me or For What I Do for You?43mins
Mar31Esther Calling - To Forgive My Ex-Husband I Need to Forgive Myself First46mins
Mar24You are Vocal on the Criticism But Silent on the Compliments60mins
Mar17Esther Perel Invites Us to Imagine Our Preferred Future54mins
Mar10Leaving the Shame Behind49mins
Mar3Esther Calling - No Longer Daddy's Little Girl44mins
Feb24Esther Calling - I Can Break up with Him But I'm Still Stuck With Myself35mins
Feb10When the Turn On Becomes a Turn Off59mins
Feb3Esther Calling - I'm Keeping the Baby...Now What?42mins
Jan27Is This Worth a Second Chance?60mins
Jan20Esther Calling - Are We Just Not Sexually Compatible? Part Two52mins
Jan13Esther Calling - Are We Just Not Sexually Compatible?43mins
Jan6Esther Calling - Did I Get Ghosted or Is He Just Not That Into Me?43mins
Dec16Esther Calling - I Don't Want to Turn Into My Mother51mins
Dec2Esther Calling - Grief is Like a Fingerprint45mins
Nov18Say More - Esther Perel on Fantasy with Gillian Anderson55mins
Nov11How Many Times Can I Forgive You?59mins
Nov4Finding Love Would Mean Letting Go of Who I Am51mins
Oct21Esther Calling - You Are So Not Invited to My Wedding45mins
Oct14Love the Child, Not the Father55mins
Oct7Best Friends Don't Make For the Best Bosses45mins
Sep23Say More - Miranda July and Esther Perel on The Rebirth of Desire51mins
Sep16Esther Calling - Why Can't I Find Someone? Is it Me?36mins
Sep9We Had Boundaries and He Crossed Them62mins
Aug26The Arc of Love - Happily Divorced57mins
Aug19The Arc of Love - All The Things We Never Said49mins
Aug12The Arc of Love - A Romantic Revival48mins
Aug5The Arc of Love - The Other Woman49mins
Jul29The Arc of Love - The Poly Dinner Party51mins
Jul22The Arc of Love - A Small Town Affair50mins
Jul15The Arc of Love - Young Love50mins
Jul8The Arc of Love - I Don't Think I Want Kids? But My Partner Might?54mins
Jun24You Keep Planning A Future Without Me51mins
Jun17Esther Calling - Four Affairs, Four Divorces. Why Do I Keep Doing This?51mins
Jun3Esther Calling - What If I Break Up With My Dad?49mins
May20Esther Calling - It Feels Like My Siblings Abandoned Me37mins
May13Does Growing Up Mean Growing Apart?63mins
May6Esther Calling - My Mom Should Have Set a Different Example42mins
Apr22Esther Calling - Love is a Trap40mins
Apr15I Think I Married the Wrong Person54mins
Apr8Esther Calling - My Exes Exes Keep Ruining My Relationships50mins
Apr1Esther Perel on New AI - Artificial Intimacy67mins
Mar25Esther Calling - My Husband, His Other Wife, and Me40mins
Mar19Sex, Comedy and Context: A Live Conversation with Trevor Noah49mins
Mar11If He's A "High Value Man", What Am I?33mins
Mar4I Love You One Day, I Hate You The Next53mins
Feb26Say More - Ira Glass on Is This It?49mins
Feb19I Trust You to Always Tell Me When I'm Wrong56mins
Feb12Esther Calling - I Lost Him, But I Lost Myself Too46mins
Feb5He Wants it Everyday, She Wants it Never55mins
Jan29As They Like Me More, I Like Myself Less59mins
Jan25Esther Calling - Part of Me Wants to Cheat Part Two34mins
Jan22Esther Calling - Part of Me Wants to Cheat Part One45mins
Jan15Now That I Have A Girlfriend, I Never Want To Leave My Wife58mins
Jan8Esther Calling - Am I Just Your Placeholder?32mins
Jan3Non-Negotiables in the New Year | From Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris56mins
Dec18Say More - Neil Patrick Harris on Friendship33mins
Dec4Esther Calling - My Emotional Inheritance41mins
Nov27Esther Calling - Is This Survivor's Guilt?40mins
Nov13She's Out, He's Still In.58mins
Nov6Esther Calling - Depleted Mothers Club31mins
Oct30A Marriage Organized Around Trauma56mins
Oct16A Hospital Divided58mins
Oct9Esther Calling - I Left. Now I Want My Wife Back.43mins
Sep25Esther Calling - Self Love Isn't Something I Grew Up With38mins
Sep18How's Work? - The Preacher's Wife Part Two42mins
Sep11How's Work? - The Preacher's Wife52mins
Aug28Esther Calling - My Brother's Wife Ruined Our Relationship27mins
Aug14Esther Calling- I Want Her to Like Me Less28mins
Aug7Esther Calling - I Crossed a Line I Never Thought I Would Cross32mins
Jul24Long Distance and Lost53mins
Jul17Esther Calling - Am I Being Gaslit?36mins
Jul10Donor Daddy53mins
Jun27Where Should We Begin? is coming back… weekly2mins
Mar11Love In War with Esther Perel: Ukraine58mins
Jun23Esther Calling - I Need Her to See Me27mins
Jun9We Started As An Affair54mins
May26Esther Calling - I Deserve to Be a Mother31mins
May12Esther Calling - Having Needs Doesn't Make You Needy18mins
May5My Orgasm Is Not Just For Me55mins
Apr28Twice Married, To Each Other54mins
Jan20Esther Calling - Will He Make The Space For Me17mins
Jan13Esther Calling - It's a Matter of Pride19mins
Dec30I Can Be Strong and Be Taken Care Of56mins
Dec23I Don't Mean to Be Mean, But...64mins
Dec16An Intimate Evening with Esther Perel17mins
Dec9Before We Got Together I Identified As Gay55mins
Dec2Where Are They Now - A Romantic Revival51mins
Nov18Esther Calling - Losing My Best Friend19mins
Nov11Esther Calling - My Partner's Privilege19mins
Sep30If I Quit, What Will People Say? | How's Work?55mins
May14Couples Under Lockdown: Lagos, Nigeria54mins
Apr16Couples Under Lockdown: New York, New York48mins
Apr2Couples Under Lockdown: Bavaria, Germany54mins
Mar24Couples Under Lockdown: Sicily, Italy49mins
May17Prologue2mins