“Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.”

—  Esther Perel

Source: Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

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Belgian Psychotherapist and Author 1958

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