Put down your phone and pay attention to your relationship
Intimacy is difficult to achieve or maintain when your phone keeps beeping with alerts, notifications and email reminders
Is your smartphone ruining your relationships? How many times have you been on a romantic date, a date where you actually liked the person, but you couldn’t resist being on your phone for whatever reason?
You just HAVE TO Instagram that meal, don’t you?
Is the Internet putting up a barrier between people, even in bed?
Many mothers will be on their cell-phones while getting their kids ready for school or even while making their lunch. I am guilty of that one! But besides all that, the main question is: Are our cell-phones ruining our relationships?
Here are 3 points to consider when answering the above question:
1- Smartphones can be the culprit of communication breakdown among couples. Intimacy is difficult to achieve or maintain when your phone keeps beeping with alerts, notifications and email reminders.
In fact, some people talk more about their relationships on Facebook than they do face-to-face with the person they’re actually in a relationship with!
2- We’ve become convinced that our mobile alerts and notifications are urgent, no matter what. We feel the urge to reply or check our email and social media accounts over and over again, like our lives depended on it. As a result, we’ve become overly attached to digital communication, regarding “real life” communication as secondary.
3- Prioritising the wrong models of communication: We sabotage our happiness and wreak havoc with our relationships, failing to see which is more important in our life. Small, precious moments are slipping away because we’re focused on reading all of our emails, and we get unreasonably anxious if we put our phones away even for 30 minutes.
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