Infidelity in modern relationships
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Air Date: July 24, 2025 12:00 pm
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Psychotherapist Esther Perel joins us for a conversation on love and intimacy. Perel is one of the country’s most well-known relationship therapists with an almost rock star status. She’s the bestselling author of Mating in Captivity: In Search of Erotic Intelligence and State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity, and has a hit podcast. We’ll talk with Perel ahead of her national tour, about what she’s discovered in her years counseling couple’s about love and desire and how to sustain an intimate relationship in a time of conflict, anxiety and upheaval.