How to be a better friend (w/ Rhaina Cohen)
Summary
Journalist and author Rhaina Cohen discusses reimagining friendship, challenging societal norms, and exploring the potential of platonic relationships. She delves into challenging conventional ideas about friendship fidelity, offloading expectations from romantic partners, coping with loss, and navigating political differences. Cohen offers practical tips, including making routines, prioritizing friendship in life's architecture, proactively offering support, and celebrating platonic bonds, encouraging listeners to imagine and pursue deeper friendships.Episode description
What would it look like if we took friendship as seriously as we take romance? Rhaina Cohen, author of the book The Other Significant Others: Reimagine Life with Friendship at the Center, talks to Chris about the value of platonic relationships. They get into everything from offloading expectations from a romantic partner onto a friend can help improve relationships to how to cope with the loss of a friend to what to do when politics divide friendships. If you want to develop your friendships, Rhaina has tons of practical tips and advice.
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Host: Chris Duffy (Instagram: @chrisiduffy | chrisduffycomedy.com)
Guest: Rhaina Cohen (Instagram: @rhainacohen | LinkedIn: @rhainacohen | Website: rhainacohen.com/)
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Bookshop.org: The Other Significant Others
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