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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
AN INDIAN BESTSELLER
/"Significant Others…basically, it has become my new Bible." -Trevor Noah
/"A striking work of compassion and insight./" ―Lori Gottlieb
/"I loved it and recommend [Significant Others] to everyone./" ―Ezra Klein
/"I feel like I've been waiting for this book my entire adult life./" ―Anne Helen Petersen
Why do we think romantic relationships are more important than friendships? What do we lose when we expect a spouse to meet all of our needs? And what can we learn about commitment, love, and family from people who place deep friendship at the center of their lives?
In The Other Significant Others, NPR's Rhaina Cohen invites us into the lives of people who have defied convention by choosing a friend as their life partner: these are friends who co-own a home, co-parent or care for each other . Their compelling stories overturn widely held assumptions about relationships, including the idea that gender is a defining characteristic of partnership and that people who raise children together should be in a loving relationship. Platonic partners from different backgrounds (age, religion, gender, sexuality, etc.) reveal how liberating and empowering it can be to adopt a relationship model that society does not recognize. And they show that orienting your world around friends isn't limited to daydreams and episodes of The Golden Girls, but is actually possible in real life.
Drawing on years of original reporting and remarkable social science research, Cohen argues that we undermine romantic relationships by expecting too much of them, while we diminish friendships by expecting too little. She talks about how, throughout history, our society has not always focused on marriage as the greatest source of meaning, or even love. At a time when many Americans spend large portions of their lives single, widowed or divorced, or feeling the effects of the "loneliness epidemic," Cohen insists that we recognize the many forms of deep connections that can anchor our lives. An exciting and incisive book, The Other Significant Others challenges us to ask ourselves what we want from our relationships – not just what we are supposed to want – and transforms how we define a fulfilling life.
00:00 – Discover new possibilities for connection.
00:56 – Beyond friendship
03:16 – Sex is not everything
05:32 – Defying social expectations
08:20 – Friends and family
10:32 – Growing old together
12:45 p.m. – Mourning for lost friends
3:23 p.m. – Legalize friendship
6:03 p.m. – Final summary
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