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.

Our relationship is great. The challenge is we left the love met around us in how we

created our relationship.

We started the relationship through an affair, ended up leaving our spouses. We stopped

working. I've got two kids coming from different villages, background and different racial

backgrounds. We now live together, our children are starting to meet each other. Her children

live with us. Knowing how this began and I just kidding myself and I allowed to have

this. I carry a lot of guilt over it.

They met at the end of a high school, then they moved on in their own lives. And one day

they met again, thank you Facebook. And that meeting opened up a whole chest of longings.

And here they are after six years. What happens when two people who knew each other as teenagers

and meet again 20 years later, find themselves first in an affair, then in a divorce, then

in a recreation of a family. And how all of this is affecting everyone around them, six

children, two exes and new partners, all as a consequence of their pursuit of happiness.

I was a senior in high school. We dated towards the end of that school year. I went off to

college and then the relationship ended, probably just through lack of interaction.

Was she your first girlfriend?

Good question. So she was not my first girlfriend, but she was my first of a lot of things in terms

of I lost my virginity to her. And you know, versus probably pretty serious relationship.

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