“What I can see, and she has not yet grasped, is that the thing she’s really afraid to lose is not him -it’s the part of herself he’s awakened. You think you had a relationship with truck man, I tell her. Actually, you had an intimate encounter with yourself mediated by him.”

“What I can see, and she has not yet grasped, is that the thing she’s really afraid to lose is not him -it’s the part of herself he’s awakened. You think you had a relationship with truck man, I tell her. Actually, you had an intimate encounter with yourself mediated by him.”

— Esther Perel