Mere-Mere

“Sometimes, when we seek the gaze of another, it isn’t our partner we are turning away from, but the person we have become. We are not looking for another lover so much as another version of ourselves.”
― Esther Perel, The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity

“No woman should give any man the power to shatter her romantic ideals.”
― Esther Perel, The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity

“The point is,” she said, “I don’t need you to be noble. I only need you to be mine.”
― Mimi Matthews, The Matrimonial Advertisement

“We seek connection, predictability, and dependability to root us firmly in place. But we also have a need for change, for the unexpected, for transcendence. The Greeks understood this, which is why they worshiped both Apollo (representative of the rational and self-disciplined) and Dionysus (representative of the spontaneous, sensuous, and emotional).”
― Esther Perel, The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity