The Ezra Klein Show on Friendship with Rhaina Cohen
Provocative discussion about the limited ways modern culture regards friendship as secondary to familial or romantic relationships. Plus good stories of people who have centered their lives around deep, intimate, platonic friendships. As an English major who pored over Woolf and Dickinson and Whitman’s ardent love letters to close people in their life, I especially appreciated the point about how back in the day, passionate friendship was a social norm.
This episode expanded my thinking about what is possible for friendships in my life and my child’s life. We get to decide who is important to us and how and what we’re willing to do to be connected to the close friends who mean a lot to us.