The Sunday Story: More Than Friends
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🗓️ 11 February 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
NPR's Rhaina Cohen has been thinking about this question for years. It started when she met someone. This someone was not a lover, but a friend. As their relationship deepened, Cohen began to wonder why there wasn't a special term for a platonic relationship that felt romantic, or an understanding of partnerships that went beyond the status of "best friend."
In today's episode of The Sunday Story, host Ayesha Rascoe sits down with Rhaina Cohen to talk about her forthcoming book, The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Aisha Roscoe and this is the Sunday story. |
| 0:03.0 | Valentine's Day is right around the corner and love is in the air. |
| 0:16.6 | There are a lot of cliches around Valentine's Day |
| 0:20.4 | and you know, I will say I do like bouquets and candy hearts and all of that. |
| 0:27.4 | I don't mind saying I'm a little bit cheesy but we all need love. |
| 0:32.0 | It comes in so many forms. |
| 0:37.0 | In today's episode, we'll be talking about a type of relationship |
| 0:41.2 | that isn't celebrated as often as romantic relationships are, but is often hidden in |
| 0:47.2 | plain sight. |
| 0:48.2 | I'm talking about deep committed friendships. Friendships that are the first priority in your life. |
| 0:55.0 | Joining us today is Rayna Cohen, a producer and editor here at NPR |
| 1:00.0 | and also the author of a new book called The Other Significant Others. |
| 1:07.0 | In her book, Rayna shares the stories of friends who have made each other life partners, |
| 1:12.0 | and she shows how friendships of this kind can who have made each other life partners. |
| 1:12.8 | And she shows how friendships of this kind |
| 1:14.9 | can shake up our assumptions about all kinds of relationships |
| 1:19.5 | in our lives. |
| 1:20.8 | How we define what a family unit looks like, who we grow old with, and how we show up in the day to day for the people that we love and care about. |
| 1:30.0 | The friends who Reyna writes about own homes together, raise kids together, and care for each other in old age. |
| 1:38.0 | It is love. |
| 1:40.0 | Today on the Sunday story, we consider what it means to put friends at the center of your life. |
| 1:48.0 | My conversation with Rayna, after the break, stay with us. |
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