Print/web coverage:

Good Housekeeping: Non-Nuclear Families — Out of Necessity — Are Sought After, and on the Rise

The Guardian: Virtual living rooms, adult ‘after-school clubs’ and AI lovers: my search for a fix to modern loneliness

The Cut: Where have all my guy friends gone?

Kiplinger: The Particular Loss in a Close Friend’s Death

NPR: What is ‘communal living’ and is it right for me?

The Washingtonian: Are friends more important than romantic partners?

Romper: What If Friends Are The Life Partners That Matter Most?

The Guardian: ‘She’s my sacred other’: is friendship, not romance, the key to a happy and fulfilled life?

The Baltimore Banner: “Why friendships can — and should — be as important as romantic relationships”

Vox: Want financial security in America? Better get married.

Boston Globe: Rhaina Cohen offers a take on friendship as the most enduring gold

The Marginalian: The Other Significant Others: Living and Loving Outside the Confines of Conventional Friendship and Compulsory Coupledom

The Examined Family: The *Other* Significant Others

Culture Study: Reimagining Life With Friendship at the Center

Next Big Idea Club: Romantic Love is Overrated—Focus on Friendship Instead

Mother Jones: Let Your Friendships Radicalize You

Business Insider: 3 reasons why your spouse shouldn’t be your best friend

Wall Street Journal: How to Handle Making More—or Less—Money Than Your Friends

BookPage: Review of The Other Significant Others (starred review)

Publisher’s Weekly: PW Talks with Rhaina Cohen

Psychology Today: Platonic Life Partnerships Unveiled + Platonic Life Partnerships: Challenging Societal Norms

Washington Post: Why are Gen Zers valuing friendships over romance?

The Millions: A Year in Reading: Kristen R. Ghodsee

ELLE: We Should Be Ambitious About Our Friendships

Reader’s Digest UK: Why more people are choosing platonic life partners

Podcast and radio interviews:

The Ezra Klein Show: What Relationships Would You Want, if You Believed They Were Possible?

No Filter: What if your best friend was your soulmate?

Make Me Smart (Marketplace): The economics of building a life around friends

Religion News Service: It’s time to move on from the nuclear family

Up First: More Than Friends

The Gray Area: Can a friend be our most significant other?

KPCC/LAist: The Case For Choosing Friendship Over Romance As Criteria For Life Partnership

WHYY: Why Friendship Matters

Unladylike: More Than Best Friends

Radio Atlantic: What If Your Best Friend Is Your Soulmate?

How To! (Slate): How To Evolve A Friendship

KQED Forum: When a Friendship, Not a Romantic Partner, is the Center of Your World

Dear Nina: Beyond The Golden Girls: Platonic Life Partners at Any Age, with Rhaina Cohen

The Brian Lehrer Show: In Praise of Deep Friendship

Detroit Public Radio: New book aims to redefine partnerships with friendship at the center

Disrupted (Connecticut Public Radio): Friendships That Challenge Norms

The Opposite of Small Talk: Life With Friendship at the Center

Spinsterhood Reimagined: The One Where I Talk To Author & Producer Rhaina Cohen

Sounds Fake But Okay: The Other Significant Others feat. Rhaina Cohen

WBEZ: No, you’re never too old to play with your friends

BBC Radio 4: BFFs: A Life Built on Friendship

Audacious podcast (Connecticut Public Radio): Life As Platonic Life Partners

49 Days To Stretch My Soul (Tablet Magazine): Talking Yesod

KQED’s Forum: Got Rejected? It Might Be Time to Celebrate

NPR’s All Things Considered: This just in — go to bed angry

Sagid Carter Interviews: Deep Friendships

Solo podcast: Making Friends The Center Of Life

KUOW: Is the pandemic changing how we see our friendships?

KPCC: The History And Logistics Of Platonic Partnerships

Podcast Brunch Club Podcast

KUOW: How are you celebrating (platonic) love this week?

Best-of lists

Behavioral Scientist: Behavioral Scientist’s Summer Book List 2024

The Seattle Times: Get a jump-start on 2024 Summer Book Bingo with these 4 books

Electric Literature: 7 books about women who put friendship at the center of their lives

Men’s Health: The 25 Non-Fiction Books We're Most Excited For in 2024

The Next Big Idea Club: 40 Nonfiction Books to Look Out for in 2024

NPR: Summer Reads by NPR Authors

TV interviews

New Day Northwest: New book spotlights those who choose friends to be their life partners