Feminism RUINED Love? Esther Perel CLAPS BACK With Raw Truth

Nayeema Raza September 30, 2025
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Why are we falling in love less? Is it feminism’s fault? Or the reality of getting older? Would @estherperel rather date in 1955, 1985 or 2025? And does the future belong to tradwives or digitally arranged marriages, powered by AI? Nayeema sits down with renowned psychotherapist, author and a big supporter in launching @smartgirldumbquestions – Esther Perel – to break down the evolution of modern romance, our obsession with self-love, and why crushes are hard to come by after your 20s. Throughout, Esther offers her signature insight into how to keep relationships alive and why the quality of our connections do more for our longevity than anything else. You can find more of her wisdom on the Where Should We Begin? podcast on YouTube, Apple or Spotify. And more of Nayeema’s vulnerability and dating woes on Smart Girl Dumb Questions (including some podcast footsie with Diplo). Be sure to follow/subscribe so you don’t miss that. Where Should We Begin? YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UC4eN7PS9mi8__4EYxy6VpFw Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/where-should-we-begin-with-esther-perel/id1237931798?itsct=estherperel_podcasts&itscg=30200&ls=1&at=1010l3afW&ct=wswb-vanity Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3fKOTwtnX5oZLaiNntKWAV 🔔 Subscribe to @smartgirldumbquestions so you don’t miss a thing! https://www.youtube.com/@SmartGirlDumbQuestions?sub_confirmation=1 🤳 Follow Smart Girl Dumb Questions on Instagram and TikTok https://www.instagram.com/smartgirldumbquestions/ https://www.tiktok.com/@smartgirldumbquestions 📱 Follow Nayeema on Instagram and X https://www.instagram.com/nayeemaraza https://x.com/nayeema?lang=en ❓ Want to be in a future episode? Send your dumb questions to [email protected]! 🎙️ About Smart Girl Dumb Questions & Nayeema Nayeema Raza is an independent journalist and filmmaker whose work has been in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Vox and the Tribeca Film Festival. Nayeema produced and hosted podcasts like Mixed Signals, On with Kara Swisher, Sway, and Open to Debate before launching her own show: Smart Girl Dumb Questions. Now she’s on YouTube as a self-proclaimed smart girl, asking the dumbest questions she can think of to the smartest humans she can find. Be sure not to miss her conversations with Mark Cuban, Neil deGrasse Tyson, 11-Year Olds Sophie and Dilan and more. Because in a world with so much to learn, being a know-it-all is the only dumb thing she could be! #relationships #estherperel #smartgirldumbquestions 00:00 My friend, not my therapist 2:00 Are we all negotiating always? 5:22 Has feminism f*cked us? 9:00 Self vs. Other: Can obligation fix lonelineness? 10:06 Why is it hard for successful women to date? 12:16 Does there need to be a masculinity revolution? 13:00 What does Esther Perel think of tradwife trend? 16:40 Are men now commodities? 19:00 Would you rather date in 1985 or 2025? ... or 1955? 21:19 Are relationships the key to longevity? 24:34 Why is it hard to fall in love as we get older? 30:00 Will love become easier in your 50s, 60s, 70s? 33:18 Is love about risk? 35:33 In uncertain times, are we all anxiously attached? 37:00 Is the biological clock real? 39:05 What do people get wrong about successful women? 42:35 If I'm paying a therapist for 10 years is it not working? 47:00 What do couples fight about? 49:53 Does talking about relationships make them better? 54:27 What surprises you about cheating? 56:06 Tell me more? 58:40 What is Esther Perel dumb about?