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The Other Significant Others Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center

Rhaina Cohen

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

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What Now? with Trevor Noah

Podcast

What Now? with Trevor Noah

In the episode, Trevor Noah highlighted the book as a new "Bible" for rethinking relationships, emphasizing its challenge to the norm that marriage is the sole committed partnership. He praised its thorough research into history and studies that demonstrate the benefits of prioritizing emotional friendships. The discussion presented the title as a compelling argument for diversifying emotional support beyond a single partner, and the overall tone was strongly positive.

Highly Recommended

Episode: A Friendship Revolution with Rhaina Cohen

The book explores the societal expectation of marriage as the only committed relationship and argues for the importance of prioritizing emotional friendships. It examines how this has evolved over time and the benefits of diversifying emotional support across multiple relationships.

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It's the other significant others and the book fundamentally it's become my new Bible.

the book is about who you choose as a life partner and who we have been told our life partner is.

what I loved about the book as well was you have this like deep research, studies that have been done, history, how things have evolved, why things have evolved.

I think it's the difference between being number one and the only one and that people are, you know, mistaking those two things.

I think that there are lots of people more than maybe we know who really do appreciate friendships and we have not been able to acknowledge that on a larger scale.

A Bit of Optimism

Podcast

A Bit of Optimism

In the episode, Simon Sinek highlighted the title as a compelling exploration of people who prioritize platonic friendships, describing them as intimate and powerful relationships comparable to marriage. He praised the author's storytelling and expressed enthusiasm for the subject, noting that the book shows how these friendships can become the most significant people in one's life. The discussion conveyed a strong endorsement of the book's insights into reimagining friendship as a central life focus.

Highly Recommended

Episode: Happily Friended with author Rhaina Cohen

The book tells the stories of people who prioritize platonic friendships, exploring the depths of those relationships and how they can be just as significant as romantic ones.

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She wrote a book called The Other Significant Others.

She's a prolific journalist and producer, and in her book she tells the stories of people who made platonic friendships the most significant people in their lives, even bordering on partnership.

I love this topic.

And what I really sort of zoned in on was that there are these friendships that are as intimate and as powerful as marriages, though they may not be sexual.

Pretty much everything else other than the sex is the same.

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