It's such a middle finger in my face in the middle of this horrifying thing that's happening

all over the globe.

None of the couples you are about to hear are ongoing clients of Esther Perel.

For the purposes of maintaining their confidentiality, names and some identifiable characteristics

have been removed.

But their voices and their stories are real.

The relationship is rapidly unraveling.

They've been together for 25 years in a highly reactive volatile relationship and they're

in the midst of a divorce.

I'm scared to death of my wife.

She scares me.

When she's upset, she's to me like a business bond.

Okay.

They live in New York City.

They have been quarantined together for the past two weeks due to COVID-19.

He would like to be anywhere but with his wife at this moment.

Living with someone who has so much contempt for me and feels that I am trying to control

you by asking you to isolate with your family, which is what the governor is asking us to

do.

But he has made a choice out of duty and obligation to be with his family.

But it's certainly not what he wants and he reminds her that constantly.

Like two weeks ago, I had to get pediatrician, child therapist, everybody to explain to him

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