You Can Be Right or You Can Be Married

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

🗓️ 13 April 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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[Contains mature themes] They’ve been together for more than a decade, but this isn’t the first time they’ve separated. Stuck in a cycle of explosive escalations, a husband and wife want to make it work but can’t break their habit of going for the emotional jugular. Esther encourages them to start their conversations differently. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What do you think a private conversation sounds like?
0:04.3	WhatsApp has multiple layers to protect your conversations.
0:08.0	Enter ending encryption makes personal messages unreadable to anyone on the outside.
0:12.9	Password protect individual chats with chat lock
0:15.7	and view once makes photos and videos disappear after they're seen.
0:19.4	With all these features working together, this is what a truly private conversation sounds like.
0:25.6	WhatsApp message privately with multiple layers of protection.
0:30.2	The second season of and just like that is here.
0:33.6	And so is the discourse over its performative wokeness.
0:37.6	Succession is sex in the city on steroids with no boning.
0:43.6	We don't police like the prestige stuff in this way.
0:48.6	We don't critique the programs men like to watch in this way.
0:54.6	A critique and defense of and just like that.
0:58.6	From one of the show's very own writers, this week on Intuit, Vultures Pop Culture Podcast.
1:05.6	The drama in the chaos was very interesting at the beginning and very intoxicating.
1:14.6	But over the years, it's just become detrimental.
1:21.1	What you're about to hear is an unscripted one-time couples counseling session.
1:26.1	It contains mature themes and listener discretion is advised.
1:30.1	For the purposes of maintaining confidentiality, names and some identifiable characteristics have been removed.
1:36.6	But their voices and their stories are real.
1:41.1	At the time when I meet this couple, they have been separated for a few months.
1:49.1	But this is not the first time they're separating.
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