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04333aam a22005778i 4500 001 BA20E0E0883B11EEBC107B3452ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231121010059 008 230914s2024 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023036060 020 $a 1250280915 020 $a 9781250280916 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a BF575.F66 $b C634 2024 082 00 $2 23/eng/20231106 100 1 $a Cohen, Rhaina, $e author. 245 14 $a THE OTHER SIGNIFICANT OTHERS : $b REIMAGINING LIFE WITH FRIENDSHIP AT THE CENTER / $c Rhaina Cohen. 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 2402 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b St. Martin's Press, $c 2024. 300 $a pages cm 500 $a 2024/02/13 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Defining the relationship -- Other significant others -- What's sex got to do with it? -- Be your own man -- Functional families -- The long game -- Give them grief -- Friends, with benefits. 520 $a ""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 ofMaybe 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 whoare 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 aromantic 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 thatorienting 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Friendship. $9 69551 650 0 $a Conduct of life. $9 63901 941 $a 22 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20240509011850.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20240503011410.0 952 $l KJPF566 $d 20240503011158.0 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20240502012012.0 952 $l YGPC162 $d 20240416012321.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409045356.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20240409012722.0 952 $l SIPD314 $d 20240409011606.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20240405024600.0 952 $l JSPB572 $d 20240323013034.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20240307012342.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20240305011730.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240302012122.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20240302011349.0 952 $l TFPI826 $d 20240302011209.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20240302010756.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20240302010314.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20240227010612.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20240224011018.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20240223011228.0 952 $l WSPF215 $d 20240220010615.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240125011058.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BA20E0E0883B11EEBC107B3452ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search