BOOKCLUB (Melb): The State of Affairs - Esther Perel
VENUE TBC: Brunswick East
Free via registration. Pls register so we know who's coming. Address sent on the day.
5:30pm arrival.
Discussion kicks off 6pm.
Anyone can come as long as YOU invite them. Feel free to ask them to join the WhatsApp too.
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I LOVE LOVE LOVE this book. It is neither pro affair, nor against affairs. Just a totally unique look at the whole.....affair?!
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Iconic couples' therapist and best-selling author Esther Perel returns with a provocative look at relationships through the lens of infidelity, providing the insight we so desperately need to help us move beyond a simplistic discussion.
An affair: it can rob a couple of their relationship, their happiness, their very identity. Adultery has existed since marriage was invented, and so, too, have the prohibitions against it - in fact adultery has a tenacity that marriage can only envy. And yet this extremely common human experience is so poorly understood. What are we to make of this time-honoured taboo - universally forbidden yet universally practiced? Why do people cheat? When we say 'infidelity', what exactly do we mean? Is there such a thing as an affair-proof marriage? Is it possible to love more than one person at once? Can an affair ever help a marriage?