As a result of reading Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others, I've found myself doing some things differently, mostly just to try out, see how it feels: 1. After a couple at dinner talked about how they met, I asked others if they had meet-cute stories of meeting friends

Getting to visit co-living communities like Fractal — and field their smart questions! — has been one of the highlights of my book tour

Check out this fascinating conversation btw. the Survey Center's @klehsheyspoke and Rhaina Cohen about her new book, The Other Significant Others storylines.substack.com/p/reimagining-…

“In ways large and small, Maria and the millions of other single people in America pay a price for the widely held assumption that everyone is — or should be — part of a couple.” Thank you Anna North for this important article! #Single #SingleAtHeart vox.com/the-highlight/…

So grateful to Leslie Gray Streeter for this piece on my book thebaltimorebanner.com/opinion/column… It was fun to jointly realize that obsessive fandom (Swifties, Beyhive) is normalized in our culture yet it's hard for many people to understand how someone could feel that intensely for a friend

Rhaina Cohen Some of my convo with Rhaina…

Book quote of the day: “But it’s easy to mistake what is familiar for what is wise" - The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center (by @RhainaCohen)

Absolutely love this piece by Anna Louie Sussman on intimate friendship as the real solution to the loneliness epidemic: romper.com/life/importanc… As a divorced woman, with a domestic partner but also very very close friends who I consider my soulmates, I felt this deep in my bones.

I'm so grateful to the ever-incisive Anna Louie Sussman for this thoughtful analysis of my book and how it relates to the growing public conversation around marriage and divorce romper.com/life/importanc…

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What a great piece. Especially appreciated this observation about a woman who had a close male friend: "She was frustrated by the assumptions from others, even facetious ones, that their friendship must involve romance or infidelity but felt trapped by these assumptions anyway."

New piece from Tasha McCauley and me, on the connection between why the OpenAI board decided to fire Sam and recent debates about whether the AI industry needs outside oversight. (Believe it or not, we had basically finished writing this before the last couple weeks of news)

Zoë Eisenberg and Rhaina Cohen on writing about intimate friendships: “I’m aware that I am very romantic in my friendships.” lithub.com/two-authors-on…

.Rose Eveleth has been following this story for more than 10 years. They pitched it to various outlets for EIGHT years until BOTH the CBC and NPR said yes. I deeply admire what Rose did here. They knew this story needed to be told and never let it go. cbc.ca/listen/cbc-pod…

still thinking about this from the new Robert Putnam interview

Over the 2010s, ideas crystallized that real social change would come only from mass protest and collective pressure. Individual action became seen at best as unproductive—at worst, a harmful distraction. I wrote an essay about why I've changed my mind: vox.com/culture/368201…

Nuclear families are no longer the predominant family in the US. goodhousekeeping.com/life/parenting… Diana Adams (they/them) Rhaina Cohen livenearfriends Remodeled Love @ancestralhab #community #communal #communalliving #ittakesavillage #village #polyamory #livenearfriends #nuclearfusionapp