Millennials on Their Platonic Relationships: ‘We Are Very Happy With Life’ [Video]

When thinking about committed relationships, it’s normal to default to the idea of romantic or sexual partnerships. For some, though, a different kind of partnership proves just as meaningful.

Platonic partnerships—without the romance or sex— are popular with people determined to make love work through alternative relationship structures. Over half of millennials, along with Gen Z, say they value friendship above romantic relationships, according to a survey conducted this year by the youth research organization, YPulse.

Meredith Siller, a licensed marriage and family therapist, spoke to Newsweek about platonic partnerships, which, she said, often involve collaboration on living arrangements, finances and intimacy boundaries—things that are usually taken for granted in romantic relationships.

“Once we throw out culturally prescribed ideas of what relationships should look like, we can create relationships that work for us,” she said. “Everything can …