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When couples struggle to reduce evening screen time together

My partner and I agreed to put our phones away after 9pm but we keep failing and now we're both resentful — I feel like they're not trying hard enough and they say I'm being controlling and we're fighting about screen time instead of just enjoying our evenings.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The attempt to change shared digital habits has become a source of conflict rather than connection.

Ideas that help explain it
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