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A review by grumblo
The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center by Rhaina Cohen
3.75
This book both delighted and infuriated me. At times I felt as though I was absolutely not the target audience and it was missing the mark entirely, and other times I was crying as I reflected on my relationships with my own loved ones and how they create new possibilities.
Rather uncritically including a pair of conservative Christian pastors and casually brushing through mentions of conversion therapy was a deeply frustrating section to read, and I really question if it was handled well.
There were rather reductive brush past ideas of polyamory at different points with varying degrees of consistency and I think an underdeveloped sense of what polyamory as a framework can mean.
I got sick after a while of hearing about the lives of DC political, legal, and journalism professionals. Not the entirety of the people interviewed in the book but good lord was it a lot.
Solid book, I’m glad I read it, it annoyed me because it engaged me.
Rather uncritically including a pair of conservative Christian pastors and casually brushing through mentions of conversion therapy was a deeply frustrating section to read, and I really question if it was handled well.
There were rather reductive brush past ideas of polyamory at different points with varying degrees of consistency and I think an underdeveloped sense of what polyamory as a framework can mean.
I got sick after a while of hearing about the lives of DC political, legal, and journalism professionals. Not the entirety of the people interviewed in the book but good lord was it a lot.
Solid book, I’m glad I read it, it annoyed me because it engaged me.