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Rhaina Cohen
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The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
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"The Other Significant Others is a vulnerable, meticulously researched, and compassionate reimagining of the relationships that sit at the center of our lives. By spotlighting people who choose to prioritize platonic partnerships, Cohen demonstrates t"
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"Yes, yes, YES! This book was exactly what I was hoping it would be! A book about all kinds of relationships that can make a person whole! I am a happily married woman, with a bunch of kids, a home, (what feels like a million, but is really 5) pets, c"
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“There is freedom in the unfamiliar, when the kind of relationship you have exists outside of well-worn categories.”
― The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
― The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
“But it’s more than an absence of spouses that complicates caregiving and companionship later in life. People are having fewer children, if they have children at all. This, in combination with marriage trends, has increased the number of older adults with no close family ties—a group of people whom sociologists call “elder orphans,” “solo agers,” or “kinless.” Researchers estimate that one in five older adults is an “elder orphan” or at risk of becoming one, a figure that is likely to grow in coming years. Like marriage, having children isn’t a surefire insurance policy for caregiving. Adult children might not live close to their parents, or their kids might not have the capacity to help. Daughters, historically the country’s default caregivers of aging parents, can’t be taken for granted as a source of uncompensated caregiving these days. Far more women are in the paid labor force and would jeopardize their economic security or their family’s if they quit their jobs to take care of their parents. (Nevertheless, on average, daughters spend far more time caring for their aging parents than sons do.) Because Americans are having kids later in life, it’s common for children with aging parents to be raising children of their own at the same time; these are members of the so-called sandwich generation. Unable to manage both forms of care, these adults may focus on their kids and outsource care for their parents.”
― The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
― The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
“While working on the book, I learned there was a clinical term for this pain about a lost future: intrapsychic grief, which the hospital chaplain and writer J.S. Park describes as “grieving what could have been and will never be.”
― The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
― The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
