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04318aim a2200433Ka 4500 001 37C40ADEDABE11EEBE8532184BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240305010131 006 m h 007 cr una--- 007 sz usn nn ed 008 231107s2024 nyu s 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1250333024 020 $a 9781250333025 (sound recording) 040 $a TEFOD $c TEFOD $d SILO 084 $a SOC026010 $a FAM021000 $a SOC026010 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Cohen, Rhaina. 245 14 $a The other significant others $h [electronic resource] : $b Reimagining life with friendship at the center. $c Rhaina Cohen. 250 $a Unabridged. 260 $a New York : $b Macmillan Audio, $c 2024. 300 $a 1 online resource (9 audio files) : $b digital 306 $a 08:41:13 500 $a Unabridged. 511 0 $a Narrator: Rhaina Cohen. 520 $a This program is read by the author. "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. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press. 538 $a Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser. 650 17 $a Nonfiction. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a Family & Relationships. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a Sociology. $2 OverDrive 655 7 $a Electronic books. $2 local 700 1 $a Cohen, Rhaina. 856 40 $u http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=251&titleID=9790876 $z Click to download here. 856 4 $3 Excerpt $u https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=bd08c002-bb2a-428e-8feb-a6c2f2aaa05e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com $z Sample 856 4 $3 Image $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1493-1/%7BBD08C002-BB2A-428E-8FEB-A6C2F2AAA05E%7DIMG100.JPG $z Large cover image 856 4 $3 Thumbnail $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1493-1/%7BBD08C002-BB2A-428E-8FEB-A6C2F2AAA05E%7DIMG200.JPG $z Thumbnail cover image 856 40 $3 Click for more information $u https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1B0wAAAA2Z/products/bd08c002-bb2a-428e-8feb-a6c2f2aaa05e $x 1370 941 $a 1 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20240305011452.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=37C40ADEDABE11EEBE8532184BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search