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Author Cohen, Rhaina, author.

Title The other significant others : reimagining life with friendship at the center / Rhaina Cohen.

Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2024.
©2024
7 holds on first copy returned of 15 copies

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - New Materials  177.62 COHEN    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - New Materials  177.62 COHEN    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - ON-ORDER (not available yet)    On Order
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult New Materials Lower Level  177.62 COHEN    DUE 04-24-24
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - New Materials  177.62 COH    DUE 04-06-24
 Enfield, Main Library - New Materials  177.62 COH    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - New Materials  302.34 COHEN    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - New Materials  158 COHEN    Recently Returned
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult New Nonfiction  177.62 COHEN    DUE 04-01-24
 New Britain, Main Library - New Materials  177.62 COH    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 308 pages ; 22 cm
Summary ""Rhaina Cohen's moving, intimate portraits of people in unusually devoted friendships upend our cultural narratives about which relationships matter . . . an arresting work of compassion and insight."--Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and co-host of Dear Therapists podcast. Why do we assume romantic relationships are more important than friendships? What do we lose when we expect a spouse to meet all our needs? And what can we learn about commitment, love, and family from people who put 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 a life partner--these are friends who are home co-owners, co-parents or each other's caregivers. Their riveting stories unsettle widespread assumptions about relationships, including the idea that sex is a defining feature of partnership and that people who raise kids together should be in a romantic relationship. Platonic partners from different walks of life--spanning age and religion, gender and sexuality and more--reveal how freeing and challenging it can be to embrace a relationship model that society doesn't recognize. And they show that orienting your world around friends isn't limited to daydreams and episodes of The Golden Girls, but actually possible in real life. Based on years of original reporting and striking social science research, Cohen argues that we undermine romantic relationships by expecting too much of them, while we diminish friendships by expecting too little of them. She traces how, throughout history, our society hasn't always fixated on marriage as the greatest source of meaning, or even love. At a time when many Americans are spending large stretches of their lives single, widowed or divorced, or feeling the effects of the "loneliness epidemic," Cohen insists that we recognize the many forms of profound connection that can anchor our lives. A rousing and incisive book, The Other Significant Others challenges us to ask what we want from our relationships--not just what we're supposed to want--and transforms how we define a fulfilling life"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-295) and index.
Contents Defining the relationship -- Other significant others -- What's sex got to do with it? -- Be your own man -- Functional families -- The long haul -- Give them grief -- Friends, with benefits.
Subject Friendship.
Conduct of life.
ethics (philosophical concept)
ISBN 9781250280916 (hardcover)
1250280915 (hardcover)
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