None of the voices in this series are ongoing patients of Esther Perel.

Each episode of Where Should We Begin is a one-time counseling session.

For the purposes of maintaining confidentiality, names and some identifiable characteristics

have been removed.

But their voices and their stories are real.

To be honest, I'm waiting for him to make a decision because obviously I can't.

Nine months ago, this woman found out that her husband had reconnected with a childhood

girlfriend in his hometown, where he went to visit his ailing mother.

And I remember that first night I went to the bathroom and I looked at my son's

ear and I was like, listen, I was like, we're good.

You've got this.

This is fine.

I have this under control.

It's been nine months that they're grappling with the ravages of this infidelity but also

decades long of acting out on his part, proceeding.

Well, did I know that he had been going online to all these different chat rooms?

At first I kind of wanted to seek the solace of strangers.

It happened over time.

The decision needs to be made because the other relationship is not over-country to what

the wife thought.

But she wants him to make the decision and his decision would be not to make a decision.

He's still just hedging his back all the time.

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