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When couples struggle to change their phone habits together

My partner and I both hate how much we're on our phones but we keep enabling each other's scrolling habits and getting defensive when the other person tries to address it and I'm realizing we've become different people than who we were before we had these devices. We say we want to change but we keep falling back into the same patterns and I don't know how to break the cycle together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are caught in a shared addiction that transforms who they are, but their attempts to change together keep failing because they haven't learned to move slowly in the same direction.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Technology and human identity — who are we with our tools??”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.