the field guide · part IV — friendship & loneliness
platonic life partners are the future
your person doesn’t have to be your romantic partner. the case for the relationship our hierarchy has no slot for.
the shelf
everything worth reading, hearing and watching on this — books, podcasts, articles, studies, and the videos. tap a format to filter.
- book
The Other Significant Others · Rhaina Cohen
people who’ve built their lives around a friendship instead of a marriage — the definitive case for this.
- article
What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life? · Rhaina Cohen, The Atlantic
the essay that put “platonic life partners” into the mainstream conversation.
- book
Big Friendship · Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman
treating a friendship as a central, tended, lifelong relationship.
