Why friendship can be just as meaningful as romantic love | Rhaina Cohen

TED Talks Daily

12-11-2024 • 9 mins

We tend to consider romantic partners and family ties to be our most important relationships, but deep friendships can be just as meaningful. In a perspective-shifting talk, author Rhaina Cohen introduces us to the people unsettling norms by choosing a friend as a life partner — and shows why we're all better off recognizing there's more than one kind of significant other.

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