When you pick a partner, you pick a story.

And often, you will be recruited for a play that you didn't audition for.

I told her I didn't know it was going to be like this.

That once we had a child, that I would be like, downgraded.

Because it's now like all about the kids.

What's it like to be someone's disappointment for 27 years?

Todd.

Where should we begin with Esther Perel is an audible original series,

bringing you into the office of the iconic relationship therapist

as she counsels real couples on modern love.

You can both tell me all kinds of things.

And I can listen to each of you.

I'm married to none of you.

So it's very easy.

But you need to reach each other.

These 10 anonymous couples have chosen to share their most intimate

and unscripted conversations.

I was going in the bathroom, and I was burying my face in a towel,

inviting it, and howling and crying, frustrated.

Esther helps each couple put words to things they felt,

but didn't quite know how to say.

Sometimes I treat you poorly, because I see him as an extension of...

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