I've Had 100 Conversations With You In My Head, Part 2

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

🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We first met them three seasons ago in the painful aftermath of an infidelity. She was diagnosed with an STD during a routine visit to her OBGYN, leading to the revelation that her husband had been visiting sex workers. Four years later, they’re still together, but old wounds persist. 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.
0:06.7	Each episode of Where Should We Begin is a one-time counseling session.
0:10.7	For the purposes of maintaining confidentiality, names and some identifiable characteristics
0:16.0	have been removed.
0:17.6	But their voices and their stories are real.
0:26.2	I went in for a checkup and they saw something and they tested it and said, yeah, by the way,
0:32.9	the doctor who delivered both our kids sat there telling me this.
0:38.6	You relieved?
0:39.6	Did it come out?
0:40.6	I've asked you this before.
0:44.4	Yes.
0:45.4	It was one of the worst possible ways of finding out.
0:51.8	And I was relieved, in a sense.
1:00.3	The discovery of an affair or of infidelity is often dramatic.
1:07.7	But this one had a particular sting to it.
1:12.5	Here she was, a sex educator herself, going for her routine checkup and finding out that
1:20.1	she's having an STI.
1:22.4	An STI that he passed on to her from months of going to massage parlors with a happy ending.
1:31.8	This is a couple you've met.
1:34.1	They came to us in 2017, in season two.
1:40.2	And the title of that episode is I've had a hundred conversations with you in my head.
1:46.6	Can you lean on him as like?
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