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Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel

Esther Calling - My Mom Should Have Set a Different Example

Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel

Esther Perel Global Media

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness

4.715.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Esther speaks to a woman who is experiencing a kind of a double story. She resents her mother for the choices she made and the example she set, while also wondering if she keeps choosing the safe person as a way to combat those childhood feelings of abandonment. Esther helps her untangle these complicated feelings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I grew up both in a family and the culture where having multiple partners and not

0:09.0

being emotionally committed. it's normalized.

0:14.4

I've learned through my life that going for the safe person is the safest option for me and when I ever have been after something that is

0:29.2

exciting I end up getting her. I have been married for less than two years. My husband is one of those safe people.

0:40.0

I have two questions. The first one is how can I forgive people around me when I was growing up and especially my mother who didn't give me the best relationship example and second is how can I

1:25.0

heal this so it doesn't affect the current relationship I am in? Hi, I'm Johanna Ferreira, content director of Pop Sugar Juntos. Juntos is all about celebrating Latinay culture, pride, or many intersectional identities and joy.

1:28.0

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2:01.0

Conamol Johanna. Konamaljohana. Pick another one.

2:26.0

And Pissamos?

2:27.0

What do you want to add as you hear it now?

2:37.0

I obviously I'm old enough to make decisions and recognize that those experiences were the choice of other people.

2:52.0

But I don't know how deep and rooted these things are inside of me that I keep trying to go to the other side. I keep it.

3:07.0

Let me ask you because you make a lot of allusions and I don't really know I can guess but I may guess wrong. So if it's okay with you,

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