Marriage vs. Friendship

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Marriage didn't always wreck friendships among women, as it did the 1950s, or strain both beloved relationships, as often happens today. Stephanie Coontz studies the long history of family structures from forager society to the present. History has some stark (and cheering) lessons about the ways that friendship functions as a deep human bond. Plus, we're renewed, refreshed, and restored after taking a break and doing a full home reorganization.

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We're going on tour!

Stephanie Coontz

The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap

For a Better Marriage, Act Like a Single Person

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend. A podcast for long distance besties everywhere.
0:04.2	I'm Amina too so. And I'm Anne Friedman. Okay what are we actually doing on this podcast today?
0:09.8	We spoke with an academic, a historian who I think it's fair to say we've both been reading
0:16.0	and very interested in for a long time her name is Stephanie Coons. We interviewed her because as
0:21.9	we were researching for our book about friendship and about like big important lifelong friendships,
0:28.1	we were quickly confronted with the fact that there are precious few experts looking at the topic.
0:33.6	I mean we're obviously quoting it in the book but it's so interesting we really wanted to share
0:37.5	it in full with all of you. I'm really excited to hear more about what Stephanie Coons has to say
0:44.0	about marriage and friendship.
0:58.1	Quick Admin note we are going on tour. I hope you already knew this but maybe this is news to you
1:25.5	and if it is I'm really excited to tell you that tickets are on sale now. In late September and
1:31.4	early October we're going to Toronto, Detroit, Denver, Austin and Houston. There are tickets left in
1:38.5	all of those cities and we are going to be having a great time live shooting the shit on stage,
1:45.9	chatting with some amazing special guests. We always have a couple of visual elements that are
1:51.3	impossible to do over the air on the podcast that are like very special to the live experience.
1:56.4	So come see us callyourgirlfriend.com slash tour and if you have a friend in one of those cities give them
2:03.5	the heads up. We want to meet all of your besties too. Callyourgirlfriend.com slash tour.
2:12.4	Hi and freedman. Hello. It's been a long time since we've actually recorded this podcast. How's it going?
2:20.3	Do we want to talk about our blissful month of basically not working?
2:26.4	Oh my gosh. I'm still shook in the best way possible.
2:32.0	I feel like it is now going to be my personal corporate policy that we take a full month off every year.
2:39.2	All employees of my corporation which is me get to choose what month they want off for the year
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