How Our Phone Can Affect our Relationships

Beth Bradford, Ph.D.
Nov 3 · 5 min read

My chest was ready to explode with rage. I was having dinner with my boyfriend, and our conversation kept getting interrupted by his text messages.

Every few minutes his eyes would widen, and he would look down while I was in mid-sentence.

“Why can’t you turn off your phone,” I asked. “We’re having dinner.”

Of course, I knew the messages from “her” — an ex-girlfriend of his who didn’t like the fact that I was now dating him.

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Beth Bradford, Ph.D.

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Former TV person, current college professor and media researcher. Ironman triathlete, meditation teacher and yoga instructor writing about all of the above.

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