Cultivating trust requires millions of micro-risks that show us we’re not foolish for being confident in our relationship. It requires taking risks together that show us our partner isn’t the same as the people from our past who hurt us. Most importantly, trust requires taking risks together that help us grow into better partners for each other. If we let each other fall in the past, it’s going to take a lot of trust falls to show that we’re committed now to always catching each other, to really holding each other at our most vulnerable. The worst case scenario is that they drop us so many times that we finally understand we can’t trust them. That’s important to learn, too. But if we don’t take the risk at all, we might never know either way.
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Many first dates these days are like a job interview. It’s people asking each other common questions. It’s lifeless. It doesn’t elicit curiosity.
I sat down with @insiderbusiness to share my tips on how to make a first date more fun. A date that gathers data is deadly. A date that evokes curiosity, discovery, serendipity, happenstance — that becomes interesting.
Visit the link in my bio for 5 steps to transform your next first date.
For this month’s @voguemagazine Etiquette column, “Oh, Behave!” I was invited to sit down alongside mental and sexual health educator, blogger and podcast host, @Eileen Kelly to answer questions that break down some long-held “rules” surrounding the art of love.
We dive deep into questions you’ve all been curious about when it comes to dating, committed relationships, friendship, and uncoupling. Visit the link in my bio for the full Q A.
For this month’s @voguemagazine Etiquette column, “Oh, Behave!” I was invited to sit down alongside mental and sexual health educator, blogger and podcast host, @Eileen Kelly to answer questions that break down some long-held “rules” surrounding the art of love.
We dive deep into questions you’ve all been curious about when it comes to dating, committed relationships, friendship, and uncoupling. Visit the link in my bio for the full Q A.
For this month’s @voguemagazine Etiquette column, “Oh, Behave!” I was invited to sit down alongside mental and sexual health educator, blogger and podcast host, @Eileen Kelly to answer questions that break down some long-held “rules” surrounding the art of love.
We dive deep into questions you’ve all been curious about when it comes to dating, committed relationships, friendship, and uncoupling. Visit the link in my bio for the full Q A.
For this month’s @voguemagazine Etiquette column, “Oh, Behave!” I was invited to sit down alongside mental and sexual health educator, blogger and podcast host, @Eileen Kelly to answer questions that break down some long-held “rules” surrounding the art of love.
We dive deep into questions you’ve all been curious about when it comes to dating, committed relationships, friendship, and uncoupling. Visit the link in my bio for the full Q A.
For this month’s @voguemagazine Etiquette column, “Oh, Behave!” I was invited to sit down alongside mental and sexual health educator, blogger and podcast host, @Eileen Kelly to answer questions that break down some long-held “rules” surrounding the art of love.
We dive deep into questions you’ve all been curious about when it comes to dating, committed relationships, friendship, and uncoupling. Visit the link in my bio for the full Q A.
After Valentine’s Day, it’s tempting to compare our relationships to everyone else’s, but love is not one-size-fits-all. Celebrate your unique journey, regardless of how it measures up to others.
Swipe for five methods on how to put the blinders up and focus in on you and your partner. For the full @cosmopolitan article, visit the link in my bio.
After Valentine’s Day, it’s tempting to compare our relationships to everyone else’s, but love is not one-size-fits-all. Celebrate your unique journey, regardless of how it measures up to others.
Swipe for five methods on how to put the blinders up and focus in on you and your partner. For the full @cosmopolitan article, visit the link in my bio.
After Valentine’s Day, it’s tempting to compare our relationships to everyone else’s, but love is not one-size-fits-all. Celebrate your unique journey, regardless of how it measures up to others.
Swipe for five methods on how to put the blinders up and focus in on you and your partner. For the full @cosmopolitan article, visit the link in my bio.
After Valentine’s Day, it’s tempting to compare our relationships to everyone else’s, but love is not one-size-fits-all. Celebrate your unique journey, regardless of how it measures up to others.
Swipe for five methods on how to put the blinders up and focus in on you and your partner. For the full @cosmopolitan article, visit the link in my bio.
After Valentine’s Day, it’s tempting to compare our relationships to everyone else’s, but love is not one-size-fits-all. Celebrate your unique journey, regardless of how it measures up to others.
Swipe for five methods on how to put the blinders up and focus in on you and your partner. For the full @cosmopolitan article, visit the link in my bio.
After Valentine’s Day, it’s tempting to compare our relationships to everyone else’s, but love is not one-size-fits-all. Celebrate your unique journey, regardless of how it measures up to others.
Swipe for five methods on how to put the blinders up and focus in on you and your partner. For the full @cosmopolitan article, visit the link in my bio.
As I shared in my newsletter to you earlier this week, surprises spark our ability to discover, rediscover and appreciate the mystery within our partner or someone special. Novelty confirms the irrefutable otherness and this realization can be deeply erotic: pleasurable, playful, and fun.
This Valentine’s Day, try invoking surprise with your partner by asking them a curious question, like this one from my card game.
You may think you’ve heard all of their stories, that nothing could possibly be new. But there’s always more to rediscover and appreciate in this person you love and know so deeply or in a person you are getting to know for the first time.
If you’d like to try bringing more surprise into your relationship, order Where Should We Begin? A Game of Stories by tomorrow, February 9th at midnight ET on Amazon.com to ensure it arrives by Valentine’s Day within the U.S.*
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When we share moments of surprise with our partners, we’re reminded of their irrefutable otherness and our ability to bring out new parts of each other. But how can we ensure we continue to be surprised by our partners in the long term?
The answer lies in play.
Play is intimately and intricately connected with creativity, daring, boldness, and risk-taking—all things that invite the unknown and lead to more pleasure, connection, creativity, and fantasy.
Here are a few ideas for turning date night into play-date night this Valentine’s Day and beyond.
And if you need ideas for what to talk about during your play-date night, the second edition of my card game, Where Should We Begin? A Game of Stories contains 200 prompts to bring out the surprising stories and desires in both of you. Pull a random card or curate the collection to fit the mood, whatever it may be. Order by tomorrow, February 8th at midnight ET to ensure it arrives by Valentine’s Day within the U.S.
When we share moments of surprise with our partners, we’re reminded of their irrefutable otherness and our ability to bring out new parts of each other. But how can we ensure we continue to be surprised by our partners in the long term?
The answer lies in play.
Play is intimately and intricately connected with creativity, daring, boldness, and risk-taking—all things that invite the unknown and lead to more pleasure, connection, creativity, and fantasy.
Here are a few ideas for turning date night into play-date night this Valentine’s Day and beyond.
And if you need ideas for what to talk about during your play-date night, the second edition of my card game, Where Should We Begin? A Game of Stories contains 200 prompts to bring out the surprising stories and desires in both of you. Pull a random card or curate the collection to fit the mood, whatever it may be. Order by tomorrow, February 8th at midnight ET to ensure it arrives by Valentine’s Day within the U.S.
When we share moments of surprise with our partners, we’re reminded of their irrefutable otherness and our ability to bring out new parts of each other. But how can we ensure we continue to be surprised by our partners in the long term?
The answer lies in play.
Play is intimately and intricately connected with creativity, daring, boldness, and risk-taking—all things that invite the unknown and lead to more pleasure, connection, creativity, and fantasy.
Here are a few ideas for turning date night into play-date night this Valentine’s Day and beyond.
And if you need ideas for what to talk about during your play-date night, the second edition of my card game, Where Should We Begin? A Game of Stories contains 200 prompts to bring out the surprising stories and desires in both of you. Pull a random card or curate the collection to fit the mood, whatever it may be. Order by tomorrow, February 8th at midnight ET to ensure it arrives by Valentine’s Day within the U.S.
When we share moments of surprise with our partners, we’re reminded of their irrefutable otherness and our ability to bring out new parts of each other. But how can we ensure we continue to be surprised by our partners in the long term?
The answer lies in play.
Play is intimately and intricately connected with creativity, daring, boldness, and risk-taking—all things that invite the unknown and lead to more pleasure, connection, creativity, and fantasy.
Here are a few ideas for turning date night into play-date night this Valentine’s Day and beyond.
And if you need ideas for what to talk about during your play-date night, the second edition of my card game, Where Should We Begin? A Game of Stories contains 200 prompts to bring out the surprising stories and desires in both of you. Pull a random card or curate the collection to fit the mood, whatever it may be. Order by tomorrow, February 8th at midnight ET to ensure it arrives by Valentine’s Day within the U.S.
This Valentine’s Day, explore the erotic, and not only for those of you that are coupled. Eroticism is universally available, inviting us out of the efficiency of our routines, if only for a moment, and into a more playful, more present exploration.
No matter how effective our routines have been—or how much we’ve even enjoyed them—if they’re not filled with creativity, they inevitably leave us numb. Creativity is where Eroticism lives. Powered by curiosity, intuition, and the energy of imagination, creativity invites us into the unknown.
Eroticism is about bringing adventure back into play. It’s about bringing creativity into our lives. There’s no better time.
Visit the link in my bio for a Valentine’s Day happy hour, that creates a space to foster connection, step out of your normal routines, and add moments of play to this Valentine’s Day.
In a new episode of Where Should We Begin? I sat down with @pivotpodcastofficial hosts @karaswisher and @profgalloway to explore the inner works of what makes this pivotal pair great to listen to and how being open to surprise and difference invites them each to be better people.
Listen to “I Trust You to Always Tell Me When I’m Wrong” through the link in my bio.
In this week’s Wondercade…therapist and relationship expert, @estherperelofficial, shares her romance rules to make every day Valentine’s Day. Sign up at Wondercade.com for this lovely issue.
This Valentine’s week, @estherperelofficial shared 3 romance rules to help you step up your game with your partner and play your cards right. If you love Esther Perel as much as we do, we’ve got exciting news…she’s going on a US tour! This tour-slash-immersive event will feature gameplay with the audience and discussions as she sheds light on the future of relationships, love, and desire – starting April 4th! Click the link in our bio to learn more about her upcoming tour, rules of romance, and new card game!
This Valentine’s week, @estherperelofficial shared 3 romance rules to help you step up your game with your partner and play your cards right. If you love Esther Perel as much as we do, we’ve got exciting news…she’s going on a US tour! This tour-slash-immersive event will feature gameplay with the audience and discussions as she sheds light on the future of relationships, love, and desire – starting April 4th! Click the link in our bio to learn more about her upcoming tour, rules of romance, and new card game!
Exciting news! Globally renowned workplace thought leader and New York Times Bestseller Esther Perel is Culture Amp’s first external advisor. High performance cultures start with great relationships. Together, we’re committed to creating a better world of work.
