Esther Perel: Rethinking infidelity ... a talk for anyone who has ever loved
ایستر پرل: بازاندیشیِ بیوفایی ... صحبتی برای همه کسانی که تابحال عاشق شدهاند
Psychotherapist Esther Perel is changing the conversation on what it means to be in love and have a fulfilling sex life. Full bio
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what exactly do we mean?
دقیقا منظور چیست؟
paid sex, a chat room,
out of boredom and fear of intimacy,
and hunger for intimacy?
the end of a relationship?
I have traveled the globe
with hundreds of couples
of their relationship,
very identity: an affair.
act is so poorly understood.
خیلی کم درک و شناخته شده است.
who has ever loved.
since marriage was invented,
that marriage can only envy,
the only commandment
just for thinking about it.
what is universally forbidden,
practically had a license to cheat
عملا دارای مجوز برای خیانت
of biological and evolutionary theories
is as old as adultery itself.
به قدمت خود زنا.
under the sheets there, right?
is to boast and to exaggerate,
is to hide, minimize and deny,
that there are still nine countries
one person for life.
had nothing to do with love.
since I arrived at this conference.
keeps on expanding:
secretly active on dating apps.
universally agreed-upon definition
from 26 percent to 75 percent.
walking contradictions.
that it is terribly wrong
about having an affair,
amount of us will say
would do if we were having one.
of an affair --
which is the core structure of an affair;
که بر هسته خیانت بنا شده؛
to one degree or another;
the kiss that you only imagine giving,
for love, not the other person.
difficult to keep a secret.
such a psychological toll.
our economic security.
امنیت اقتصادی ما بود.
is a romantic arrangement,
our emotional security.
we sought pure love.
infidelity hurts differently today.
in which we turn to one person
که با وجود شخصی
my intellectual equal.
the grand ambition of love.
infidelity has always been painful,
who we were as a couple, who I was.
a crisis of identity.
Heather is telling me,
about her story with Nick.
on his iPad with the boys,
appear on the screen:
we just saw each other.
that her father had affairs,
one little receipt in the pocket,
on the collar.
and desires expressed.
of Nick's two-year affair
are death by a thousand cuts.
that we're dealing with these days.
fidelity with a unique fervor.
been more inclined to stray,
entitled to pursue our desires,
where I deserve to be happy.
because we were unhappy,
because we could be happier.
will judge her for still loving Nick,
که او هنوز نیک را دوست دارد،
she gets the same advice:
Nick would be in the same situation.
نیک در موقعیتی مشابه بود.
is that if someone cheats,
in your relationship or wrong with you.
can't all be pathological.
have everything you need at home,
to go looking elsewhere,
a thing as a perfect marriage
has a finite shelf life?
that even a good relationship
that I actually work with
deeply monogamous in their beliefs,
actually been faithful for decades,
of longing and loss.
you will often find
for an emotional connection,
for autonomy, for sexual intensity,
برای خوگرایی، برای شدت رابطه جنسی،
lost parts of ourselves
vitality in the face of loss and tragedy.
در مقابل فاجعهها و از دست دادنهاست.
another patient of mine, Priya,
what was expected of her:
who removed the tree from her yard
he's quite the opposite of her.
کاملا معکوس پریا.
the adolescence that she never had.
that when we seek the gaze of another,
that we are turning away from,
we have ourselves become.
looking for another person,
looking for another self.
who have affairs always tell me.
stories of recent losses --
in the shadow of an affair,
25 years like this?
that perhaps these questions
people to cross the line,
an attempt to beat back deadness,
and a lot more about desire:
و بیشتر درباره میل و آرزوست:
desire to feel special,
never have your lover,
that which you can't have.
in open relationships,
about monogamy is not the same
that even when we have
by the power of the forbidden,
با قدرت ممنوعیت می شویم،
we are not supposed to do,
doing what we want to.
quite a few of my patients
into their relationships
تخیل و استعدادی
the imagination and the verve
already dying on the vine.
into new possibilities.
affairs stay together.
to turn a crisis into an opportunity.
into a generative experience.
more so for the deceived partner,
to uphold the status quo
for them that well, either.
that may actually lead to a new order,
with honesty and openness
sexually indifferent
so lustfully voracious,
of loss will rekindle desire,
new kind of truth.
نوع جدیدی از حقیقت می گشاید.
that couples can do?
که یک زوج می توانند انجام دهند؟
acknowledges their wrongdoing.
important act of expressing
اهمیت بیان
of people who have affairs
for hurting their partner,
به شریک زندگیشان زدند،
for the experience of the affair itself.
vigil for the relationship.
the protector of the boundaries.
that the affair isn't forgotten,
begins to restore trust.
that bring back a sense of self-worth,
and with friends and activities
and meaning and identity.
to mine for the sordid details --
than me in bed? --
the investigative questions,
the meaning and the motives --
or experience there
when you came home?
and they're not going away.
و از بین نمی روند.
of black and white and good and bad,
comes in many forms.
that we betray our partner:
one way to hurt a partner.
she must be pro-affair.
can come out of an affair,
this very strange question:
recommend you have an affair
who have been ill
has yielded them a new perspective.
since I arrived at this conference
about infidelity is, for or against?
پرسش اصلی که از من پرسیده شد این بود، موافق یا مخالف؟
and what it meant for me.
و آنچه که برای من معنا دارد.
in the aftermath of an affair
two or three relationships
to do it with the same person.
a second one together?
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Esther Perel - Relationship therapistPsychotherapist Esther Perel is changing the conversation on what it means to be in love and have a fulfilling sex life.
Why you should listen
For the first time in human history, couples aren’t having sex just to have kids; there’s room for sustained desire and long-term sexual relationships. But how? Perel, a licensed marriage and family therapist with a practice in New York, travels the world to help people answer this question. For her research she works across cultures and is fluent in nine languages. She coaches, consults and speaks regularly on erotic intelligence, trauma, sexual honesty and conflict resolution. She is the author of Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic. Her latest work focuses on infidelity: what it is, why happy people do it and how couples can recover from it. She aims to locate this very personal experience within a larger cultural context.
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