Your Phone the New Epidemic That has Taken Over Your Relationship

A guide to curbing phubbing

Timothy Mugayi
8 min readMar 19, 2020
Photo by IB Wira Dyatmika on Unsplash

Relationships are complexly interwoven with small intricate details; usually, it's the small things that make or break potential long-lasting relationships. While smartphones do an excellent job of keeping us connected, it turns out they can be doing the opposite when it comes to your relationship.

If you grew up in the '80s and early '90s like I did, we treasured the outdoors the face to face interactions were a norm, been inaccessible had its bright side you were literally off the grid, disconnected from the chaos and daily grind.

Fast forward to 2020, our phones have become symbiotic extensions of ourselves. They are part of our very existence; we tap more than we talk, we feel the pull when phones are a few feet away, for some of us forgetting your phone at home just ruins your entire day, that restlessness feeling and anxiousness of the thought all those unread messages.

Why do smartphones have such a pull on us?

We all feel it nowadays. We clutch our smartphones as if they were a treasure we can't lose. Wives, husbands, boyfriends, girlfriends, kids, peers the whole lot are taking a back seat over the phone. At times the same phones we love elicit…

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Timothy Mugayi

Tech Evangelist, Instructor, Polyglot Developer with a passion for innovative technology, Father & Health Activist