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Impotent is No Way To Define a Man

2024/7/1
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Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel

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The couple discusses their long-term relationship issues, focusing on the husband's impotence and the wife's feelings of disappointment and frustration.

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This is a classic session, from the first season of Where Should We Begin? A husband hasn’t had an erection in 12 years and struggles with acknowledging it openly. His wife, in despair over her feelings of hopelessness in the bedroom, seeks relief from her sexual frustration and feelings of resentment. Esther reinforces to both of them that defining him as “impotent” is only making things worse.

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