New Episode Of "Where Should We Begin? With Esther Perel": Can A "Re-Marriage" Work?

 Divorce is a brutal process. Imagine being tortured by the thought of financial ruin, emotional torment, and character assassination at the same time?

Despite the gut-punch that accompanies most divorces, 80 percent of people who get divorced, marry again. Go figure.

An interesting subset of that number is the six percent of people who marry each other again after their divorce. In fact, the remarriage rate for people over 55 years old has actually increased in the last decade.

 In the continuation of season five, therapist Esther Perel counsels a couple who were married, divorced, and then married again. And with four kids between them, tensions run high. They fight about everything: the chores, the cats, who gets to tell who what to do. They come into the session with one story and Esther Perel helps them write an alternate version.

I'd like to be a fly on the wall for that session. Oh, wait. I am because I -- and you -- can listen to new episodes of Where Should We Begin? With Esther Perel from Gimlet, a Spotify Studio, which returned March 31. 

 

Listen to therapist Esther Perel counsel real couples as they reveal the most intimate, personal, and complicated details of the conflicts that have brought them to her door. 

This season, Esther Perel speaks to a constellation of new relationships: a couple wrestling with the guilt they feel over the happiness their infidelity created, a complicated relationship between mother and daughter, and partners navigating the conversation of having a child. Esther checks back in with couples from seasons past to see where they are now, as she creates a space for us to hear our own lives and struggles articulated in the stories of others.

 Psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author Esther Perel  helms a therapy practice in New York City and serves as an organizational consultant for Fortune 500 companies around the world. Her newest book is the New York Times bestseller The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity. Esther is also an executive producer and host of the award-winning podcasts Where Should We Begin? and How’s Work?.

So what happened to that couple who married, then divorced, then remarried? 

Check out the episode to find out.  

To me, if Esther Perel can solve that couple's problems, then she can help me. My imaginary friend Marco is not speaking to me, and I think my houseplants are trying to kill me. 

You can listen to the podcast here.