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Your best friend counts as a life partner, too #TEDTalks

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…

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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.

12 Comments

  1. @fatimaaraujo9588

    January 13, 2026 at 1:04 pm

    Interessante 🤔

  2. @keeferMYreefer

    January 13, 2026 at 1:05 pm

    I love this!!! ❤

  3. @witbanasik2064

    January 13, 2026 at 4:08 pm

    THANK YOU FOR THE RIVETING AND VITAL VOICE OF LOVE… BLESS YOU !!!

  4. @urbanwolfep7195

    January 13, 2026 at 4:16 pm

    Indeed

  5. @dougewald243

    January 13, 2026 at 4:31 pm

    Old issue & permission to have friends isn’t necessary.

    WTF TED?
    What does this have to do with what TED stands for?

  6. @olohialli9289

    January 13, 2026 at 8:10 pm

    I’m learning this the hard way 😢

    • @erdiaz13

      January 13, 2026 at 8:48 pm

      Wishing you all the best! Hopefully you find out that you have more love and support than you think, sometimes you can be pleasantly surprised and you may just need to ask. 💖

    • @olohialli9289

      January 14, 2026 at 5:23 am

      ​@erdiaz13thank you so much.

  7. @richardmcclung6710

    January 14, 2026 at 1:37 am

    Yes, they’re important but not life partner status. Not even close.

  8. @PLF...

    January 14, 2026 at 5:10 am

    Greetings Cap Cappington the 3rd.

  9. @BrianMcInnis87

    January 15, 2026 at 6:04 pm

    ‘too’?

  10. @WinnieWestmoreland

    January 15, 2026 at 6:37 pm

    I think MORE important for women in particular but cultural, religious & gender diversity makes it a mixed bag.

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