This little one — you're holding her, and you're adoring her, and she adores you, and you tickle and you nibble and you lick and you smile, and it's everything that you and your husband probably did in the hotel or wherever you were in the beginning. It's very erotic, it's alive — it's not sexual — it's alive, it's sensual, it's complete. And sometimes at the end of the day, you may say, "I have nothing left to give." And I will say, "It's true, but another way of looking at it is that sometimes at the end of the day there's nothing more you need." You've been held; you've been touched; you've been tickled; you've been adored — you've had it all. And your partner — any partners — can find themselves often on the outside of this real merging between frontline parent and the baby.
—Esther Perel, The Melissa Ambrosini Show, episode 493
