Esther Perel: Rethinking infidelity ... a talk for anyone who has ever loved
אסתר פרל: אסתר פרל: לחשוב מחדש על ניאוף... הרצאה לכל מי שאי פעם אהב.
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?
למה בדיוק אנחנו מתכוונים?
paid sex, a chat room,
חדר צ'אט,
out of boredom and fear of intimacy,
שעמום ופחד מאינטימיות,
and hunger for intimacy?
ורעב לאינטימיות?
the end of a relationship?
I have traveled the globe
with hundreds of couples
of their relationship,
very identity: an affair.
רומן.
act is so poorly understood.
הוא כל כך לא מובן.
who has ever loved.
שאי פעם אהב.
since marriage was invented,
that marriage can only envy,
הנישואין יכולים רק לקנא,
the only commandment
just for thinking about it.
ופעם רק בשל המחשבה על זה.
what is universally forbidden,
שמה שאסור בכל העולם,
practically had a license to cheat
היה באופן מעשי רשיון לנאוף
of biological and evolutionary theories
ביולוגיות ואבולוציוניות
is as old as adultery itself.
כמו הניאוף עצמו.
under the sheets there, right?
מתחת לסדינים, נכון?
is to boast and to exaggerate,
is to hide, minimize and deny,
להמעיט ולהכחיש,
that there are still nine countries
עדיין תשע מדינות
one person for life.
בן זוג אחד לכל החיים.
had nothing to do with love.
since I arrived at this conference.
מרגע שהגעתי לכנס הזה.
keeps on expanding:
secretly active on dating apps.
להישאר פעילים בסתר באתרי היכרויות.
universally agreed-upon definition
from 26 percent to 75 percent.
עד ל- 75 אחוזים.
walking contradictions.
that it is terribly wrong
ממש לא בסדר
about having an affair,
amount of us will say
would do if we were having one.
אילו היה לנו רומן.
of an affair --
which is the core structure of an affair;
to one degree or another;
the kiss that you only imagine giving,
שהנשיקה שאתם רק מדמיינים לתת,
for love, not the other person.
difficult to keep a secret.
such a psychological toll.
our economic security.
is a romantic arrangement,
our emotional security.
we sought pure love.
infidelity hurts differently today.
שהניאוף פוגע בנו אחרת כיום.
in which we turn to one person
החבר הטוב ביותר,
my intellectual equal.
the grand ambition of love.
infidelity has always been painful,
ניאוף תמיד הכאיב,
who we were as a couple, who I was.
מי אנחנו היינו כזוג, מי אני הייתי.
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
של הרומן בן השנתיים של ניק
are death by a thousand cuts.
הם מוות מאלפי חתכים.
that we're dealing with these days.
איתו אנו מתמודדים בימים אלו.
fidelity with a unique fervor.
בלהט ייחודי.
been more inclined to stray,
entitled to pursue our desires,
להגשים את תאוותינו,
where I deserve to be happy.
because we were unhappy,
because we could be happier.
כי יכולנו להיות שמחים יותר.
will judge her for still loving Nick,
על כך שהיא עוד אוהבת את ניק,
she gets the same advice:
היא מקבלת את אותה העצה:
Nick would be in the same situation.
ניק היה נמצא באותו המצב.
is that if someone cheats,
in your relationship or wrong with you.
או שמשהו לא בסדר איתך.
can't all be pathological.
הם כולם לא בסדר.
have everything you need at home,
את כל מה שאתה צריך בבית,
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,
מאד מונוגמיים באמונותיהם,
actually been faithful for decades,
שבעצם היו נאמנים במשך עשרות שנים,
of longing and loss.
you will often find
for an emotional connection,
for autonomy, for sexual intensity,
lost parts of ourselves
vitality in the face of loss and tragedy.
another patient of mine, Priya,
what was expected of her:
who removed the tree from her yard
שהוציא את העץ מהחצר שלה
he's quite the opposite of her.
הוא די ההיפך שלה.
the adolescence that she never had.
בנעורים שמעולם לא היו לה.
that when we seek the gaze of another,
שכשאנו מחפשים את מבטו של אדם אחר,
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 --
על אובדנים שאירעו לאחרונה --
in the shadow of an affair,
25 years like this?
that perhaps these questions
שאולי השאלות הללו
people to cross the line,
an attempt to beat back deadness,
לדחוק את החדלון אחורה,
and a lot more about desire:
והרבה יותר על תשוקות:
desire to feel special,
תשוקה להרגיש מיוחדים,
never have your lover,
אף פעם לא יהיה שלכם,
that which you can't have.
למה שאתם לא יכולים להשיג.
in open relationships,
about monogamy is not the same
that even when we have
לבני זוג אחרים לסקס,
by the power of the forbidden,
we are not supposed to do,
את מה שאנחנו לא אמורים לעשות,
doing what we want to.
את מה שאנחנו באמת רוצים לעשות.
quite a few of my patients
into their relationships
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,
עבור בן הזוג הנבגד,
to uphold the status quo
for them that well, either.
that may actually lead to a new order,
שעשוי בעצם להוביל לסדר חדש,
with honesty and openness
sexually indifferent
so lustfully voracious,
of loss will rekindle desire,
new kind of truth.
that couples can do?
שזוגות יכולים לעשות?
acknowledges their wrongdoing.
important act of expressing
החשוב, של לבטא
of people who have affairs
for hurting their partner,
על שפגעו בבני הזוג שלהם,
for the experience of the affair itself.
על חוויית הרומן עצמה.
vigil for the relationship.
מערכת היחסים.
the protector of the boundaries.
that the affair isn't forgotten,
begins to restore trust.
that bring back a sense of self-worth,
את תחושת הערך-העצמי,
and with friends and activities
and meaning and identity.
to mine for the sordid details --
את הפרטים המלוכלכים --
than me in bed? --
the investigative questions,
השאלות החוקרניות,
the meaning and the motives --
or experience there
when you came home?
and they're not going away.
והם לא הולכים לשום מקום.
of black and white and good and bad,
של שחור ולבן ושל טוב ורע,
comes in many forms.
that we betray our partner:
בהן אנו בוגדים בבני הזוג שלנו:
one way to hurt a partner.
she must be pro-affair.
היא ודאי תומכת ברומנים.
can come out of an affair,
שמרומן יכול לצאת משהו טוב,
this very strange question:
את השאלה המאד מוזרה הזאת:
recommend you have an affair
who have been ill
has yielded them a new perspective.
נתנה להם זווית ראייה חדשה.
since I arrived at this conference
מאז שהגעתי לכנס הזה
about infidelity is, for or against?
לחיוב או לשלילה?
and what it meant for me.
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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