Friendship - My Reliable Gift

Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel

Esther Perel Global Media

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

4.7 • 16.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In a Where Should We Begin first, Esther sits down with two friends. They’ve been close for so long they feel like brothers, with all of the baggage that comes with family but none of the certainty. There are things that go unspoken between them, issues they have skimmed over in their two decades of friendship. Esther creates the space for the conversation they didn't know quite where to begin. This session was recorded in collaboration with NPR's Invisibilia and a sibling episode with Esther can be heard on their podcast this week as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	None of the voices in this series are ongoing patients of Esther Parell.
0:06.2	Each episode of Where Should We Begin is a one-time counseling session.
0:10.3	For the purposes of maintaining confidentiality, names and some identifiable characteristics
0:15.6	have been removed.
0:17.2	But their voices and their stories are real.
0:20.2	It's one of those things where it's like, ah, yeah, you know, we both say like, best friends,
0:28.6	but like, are we?
0:34.8	Do you have a best friend?
0:38.0	And what does best friend mean to you?
0:41.5	And is your best friend your oldest friend?
0:44.5	Or is your best friend the one with whom you share the most today?
0:50.1	Who hasn't had to ask themselves?
0:53.0	If someone is my friend, what does that friendship mean?
0:57.8	Has that friendship outlived itself?
0:59.8	Neither of us had really been prioritizing the friendship anymore.
1:04.0	I think in the same way that maybe we had when we were younger.
1:07.6	So we met in preschool.
1:10.0	I think a lot of personality is a lot of our experiences, a lot of who we are is very
1:16.1	intertwined at a pretty subconscious level.
1:19.5	So much of our identities in our ego is actually like, weirdly intertwined and wrapped up with
1:25.3	like seeing the other, appraising the other in some way.
1:32.9	Friendship is the most free choice relationship.
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