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)

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Are you trying to learn/re-learn your heritage language? If so, I'd love to hear from you! forms.gle/xczYWLgjeF1ioR…

Rhaina Cohen Some of my convo with Rhaina…

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

“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 #Single AtHeart
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Check out this fascinating conversation btw. the Survey Center's @klehsheyspoke and Rhaina Cohen about her new book, The Other Significant Others

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

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

I was amazed by the tender stories listeners shared in their calls-in for this show

Grateful for this generous review🙏🏻

Golden Girls and Grace & Frankie are beloved by many, but treated as a fantasy. What if you didn’t have to wait until retirement age to consider centering your life around friendship? Grateful to Rhaina Cohen for bringing this conversation to Dear Nina. ninabadzin.com/2024/02/19/bey…

A growing number of older Americans are in need of long-term care. Some are turning to their friends to fill the gap and, in the process, transforming what’s traditionally been a relationship of dependence into one of equality, Rhaina Cohen reports: theatlantic.com/family/archive…

This excerpt from my book, THE OTHER SIGNIFICANT OTHERS, gives a preview of a chapter that's focused on the challenges of male friendships and how they can transform the men in them

St. Martin's Press

.Rhaina Cohen's new book imagines how life would be different if we centered it on friends.
Radio Atlantic’s Hanna Rosin spoke with Cohen about the lost history of friendship and why she cringes when couples describe each other as their “best friend.” theatlantic.com/podcasts/archi…

made some valentines for all the protools baddies out there

Inspired by Rhaina Cohen's A+ book THE OTHER SIGNIFICANT OTHERS, I'm thinking today about how to carve out space not just for romantic love but for platonic love.

What are your ways of seeing friends that go beyond the 1-hour Google Calendar dinner slot?
nytimes.com/2024/02/14/opi…

“I’ve arrived at a clearer sense of what an ideal marriage looks like to me: not one where my husband and I are cocooned,” writes Rhaina Cohen, “but looking outward, anchored within a circle of people we love.”

Read: nyti.ms/3SYGF48

I love this powerful and persuasive op-Ed from Rhaina Cohen on legal rights for non-marital relationships.

she also has a book out this week - The Other Significant Others - that was a delight to read washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…