3 Ways Staring at Screens May Be Ruining Your Relationship
Step away from the phone and toward your partner
We’ve all seen this play out: A couple is sitting at a table in a restaurant and instead of paying attention to each other — or even their food — they’re silently fiddling around with their mobile device of choice. While theoretically, our devices are supposed to make our lives easier and connect us with others, they can actually have the opposite effect on our relationships. As a result, if you’re looking for ways to improve things with your partner, you may want to ditch your bad screen habits. I spoke to some relationship experts about three of them.
“A staggering amount of people check their phone first thing in the morning.” — Karolina Bartnik
Prioritizing Mobile Devices Over Your Relationships
In the last few years, people have been primarily working from home, and the line between home and work has gotten far more blurry and boundaries are constantly being crossed. When it’s time to be intimate physically, sexually, or emotionally with your partner, you’re on your phone instead, or you’re doing that one last work-related task on your laptop even though work hours have been over for a…
