Who counts as a significant other?

This TED Radio Hour episode questions the cultural primacy of the romantic partner as the sole source of life partnership. Four speakers—journalist Rhaina Cohen, marriage and family therapist Stephanie Yates-Anyabwile, social psychologist Bella DePaulo, and photographer Elias Weiss Friedman—offer alternative perspectives. The hour explores deep friendships as lasting bonds, reimagines marriage as a flexible collaboration, celebrates the completeness of singlehood, and examines the human-dog relationship as meaningful partnership.