
Esther Perel Promo Clip
Clip: Season 7 Episode 5 | 57sVideo has Closed Captions
Esther Perel discusses the importance of life-long trial and error in relationships.
Esther Perel discusses the importance of life-long trial and error in relationships. Without engaging in experiences that show us what we like, what we don’t like, and what makes sense for us, we will not end up with fulfilling, meaningful connections.

Esther Perel Promo Clip
Clip: Season 7 Episode 5 | 57sVideo has Closed Captions
Esther Perel discusses the importance of life-long trial and error in relationships. Without engaging in experiences that show us what we like, what we don’t like, and what makes sense for us, we will not end up with fulfilling, meaningful connections.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- And the devices basically are set up to create a life without friction.
It tells you where to go, how to get there, what to listen to, what to eat, you know?
I mean, it's like assisted living.
Oh.
You know?
So what gives you an ability to deal with relationships is that you have experimentation, friction, uncertainty, trial and error.
You know, free play on the street.
I go and I ask people all over the world, like, how many of you grew up playing freely on the street?
Yeah.
And how many of you know people with young children who are playing freely on the street?
It's a generational thing because what happens on the street?
Decades of social negotiation, social interaction, unscripted, unmonitored, un choreographed, where you fight, you make up, you have you, you have conflict, you make alliances, you compete, you are jealous, you restore.
Again, this is social skills that is a whole ground of that.
And that is not happening.