3 Ways A ‘Digital Detox’ Could Save Your Relationship—By A Psychologist

Forbes November 15, 2024
Mark Travers

How often do you lay in bed scrolling on your phone with your partner only inches away from you, doing the very same thing? Absorbed by whatever’s happening on your separate screens, you may not even realize that you’ve spent hours next to one another without having shared a word. Sure, you may be sharing the same space, but you might as well be lightyears apart.

For many of us, our phones have become an extension of our bodies; we keep them very close at all times, as we rely on them for both entertainment and communication. However, in turn, our phones become somewhat of a third wheel in our relationships—or, worse yet, our partners become third wheels in our...

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