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Hello, I'm Tina Dehealey.

Welcome to Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.

A space to ask one big question about one big story.

Today, Esther Parle, does the one exist?

She's one of the most famous therapists in the world.

She's internationally known for creating and presenting the groundbreaking podcast about love, sex, intimacy and infidelity.

Where should we begin?

She has two best-selling books,

and she's appeared on the TED stage,

where her videos, subtitled in more than 30 languages, have been viewed tens of millions of times.

She's also a practicing couples and family therapist from Belgium who lives and works in New York City.

Hi Esther it's Tina Deheili from beyond today.

Hi, how are you?

I'm really good, how are you?

Sorry.

Talking over each other. This month she launched the third season of

her podcast which focuses on marriage through the stories of six couples.

Before we get on to marriage we wanted to know whether there is a perfect match for us all.

I want to talk a little bit about you first of all. I know that you're really interested in trauma and your parents were Holocaust survivors.

How much did that inform your work what you do?

I think it's basically part of my DNA,

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