What If Your Best Friend Is Your Soulmate?
A new book explores deeply platonic friendships.
February 15, 2024
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What If Your Best Friend Is Your Soulmate?
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How would life be different if we centered it on our friends? In her new book, The Other Significant Others, Rhaina Cohen visits the extremes of friendship, where pairs describe each other as “soulmates” and make major life decisions in tandem with a friend. We talk to Cohen about the lost history of friendship and why she cringes when couples at the altar describe each other as their “best friend.”
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