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Jul 2020
47m 56s

You Want Me To Watch The Kids While You ...

Esther Perel Global Media
About this episode

They met as religious teenagers and married as virgins. It's the age old story — once you're allowed to be intimate, you no longer want to be. Deciding to open the marriage has brought about huge changes in their sex life, and ruptures in their emotional one.

Programming note: This conversation was recorded before the COVID-19 lockdown.

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