Mating in Captivity
Self-Helpless
Cloud10
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2018
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
This week on Self-Helpless, the girls breakdown one of Kelsey's all-time favorite books, Mating in Captivity by legendary couples therapist and author Esther Perel. We try to answer the question posed by the book: can you have passion AND comfort in a relationship, especially a long-term one? Once the exciting beginning of a relationship becomes more routine and predictable, can you find ways to reignite a spark? Can you be lovers and friends?
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| 0:00.0 | My mind's playing tricks on me |
| 0:02.6 | Why won't it let me be |
| 0:04.5 | Look inside and try to find |
| 0:06.4 | But nothing seems to give me sweet relief |
| 0:11.2 | Why won't it let me be |
| 0:13.1 | Look inside and try to find |
| 0:15.0 | But every time it sees I lose my mind |
| 0:19.2 | My mind |
| 0:20.8 | Oh, I... |
| 0:26.0 | It's self-helpless with Kelsey Cook, |
| 0:28.5 | Delaney Fisher and Taylor Tomlinson |
| 0:31.1 | Hey guys, welcome to Self-Helpless, I'm Kelsey Cook |
| 0:33.8 | I'm Taylor Tomlinson |
| 0:34.8 | I'm Delaney Fisher |
| 0:35.9 | And we've got a lot of good stuff to talk about this episode |
| 0:39.3 | The main part that we'll be talking about later |
| 0:41.5 | is the book called Mating and Captivity by Esther Perrell |
| 0:46.0 | Perrell Perrell |
| 0:47.0 | I think it's Perrell |
| 0:47.8 | I think it's Perrell |
| 0:49.0 | I know we posted about it a little bit on social media |
| 0:51.2 | So if you guys read it, then you'll be kind of like right with us |
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