Rhaina Cohen

Like platonic life partner, platonic soulmate, best soul friend, non romantic life partner. I mean, you know, the list goes on. And there's, it is very difficult to get people to understand something if you don't have language that other people

Like platonic life partner, platonic soulmate, best soul friend, non romantic life partner. I mean, you know, the list goes on. And there's, it is very difficult to get people to understand something if you don't have language that other people

Like platonic life partner, platonic soulmate, best soul friend, non romantic life partner. I mean, you know, the list goes on. And there's, it is very difficult to get people to understand something if you don't have language that other people

people recognize and even if you come up with your own term it doesn't mean other people will respect it um and you know when you like i think about people who told me they didn't know what to do and they were filling out their emergency contact on the the doctor's office and you know like came up with different terms each time so

people recognize and even if you come up with your own term it doesn't mean other people will respect it um and you know when you like i think about people who told me they didn't know what to do and they were filling out their emergency contact on the the doctor's office and you know like came up with different terms each time so

people recognize and even if you come up with your own term it doesn't mean other people will respect it um and you know when you like i think about people who told me they didn't know what to do and they were filling out their emergency contact on the the doctor's office and you know like came up with different terms each time so

It can feel really invalidating to not have language for you and the person in the friendship, but it also can make it really inexplicable and confusing when you're trying to tell people what a person means to you.

It can feel really invalidating to not have language for you and the person in the friendship, but it also can make it really inexplicable and confusing when you're trying to tell people what a person means to you.

It can feel really invalidating to not have language for you and the person in the friendship, but it also can make it really inexplicable and confusing when you're trying to tell people what a person means to you.

I think what you're saying there, like the roommate example, is actually really a good case of why we don't know about more of these friendships. I have heard people say, well, I don't really want to have to give people my whole life history or map out my family tree, so I'm just going to use a proxy.

I think what you're saying there, like the roommate example, is actually really a good case of why we don't know about more of these friendships. I have heard people say, well, I don't really want to have to give people my whole life history or map out my family tree, so I'm just going to use a proxy.

I think what you're saying there, like the roommate example, is actually really a good case of why we don't know about more of these friendships. I have heard people say, well, I don't really want to have to give people my whole life history or map out my family tree, so I'm just going to use a proxy.

I'm going to say that my best friend's partner is the stepmom of our child, even though that's not really what it is. Or That this person is my roommate or housemate or best friend. And so there's, or calling people, giving people family names. This is my aunt or my cousin when that's actually not what you are.

I'm going to say that my best friend's partner is the stepmom of our child, even though that's not really what it is. Or That this person is my roommate or housemate or best friend. And so there's, or calling people, giving people family names. This is my aunt or my cousin when that's actually not what you are.

I'm going to say that my best friend's partner is the stepmom of our child, even though that's not really what it is. Or That this person is my roommate or housemate or best friend. And so there's, or calling people, giving people family names. This is my aunt or my cousin when that's actually not what you are.

So there are this kind of euphemistic language that makes it more legible what the relationship is. But what it ends up doing is that, we all have a kind of obscured sense of reality. So we don't have people telling us about these deep friendships because they think that we won't understand it.

So there are this kind of euphemistic language that makes it more legible what the relationship is. But what it ends up doing is that, we all have a kind of obscured sense of reality. So we don't have people telling us about these deep friendships because they think that we won't understand it.

So there are this kind of euphemistic language that makes it more legible what the relationship is. But what it ends up doing is that, we all have a kind of obscured sense of reality. So we don't have people telling us about these deep friendships because they think that we won't understand it.

And because we're not presented with them, if we ourselves have that kind of relationship, we're not gonna tell anybody else about it. I think there's something that's very powerful about talking about this subject because people will, it just cracks open lots of stories, past and present, that people have that they didn't realize anybody else would understand.

And because we're not presented with them, if we ourselves have that kind of relationship, we're not gonna tell anybody else about it. I think there's something that's very powerful about talking about this subject because people will, it just cracks open lots of stories, past and present, that people have that they didn't realize anybody else would understand.