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When couples struggle to break internet addiction patterns together

My partner and I both know we're spending way too much time online and we've tried setting boundaries together multiple times but we keep enabling each other's habits and finding excuses to check our phones 'just this once.' We say we want to change but when one of us tries to disconnect the other gets anxious about being the only one still plugged in.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people caught in a cycle where individual willpower fails because the shared digital ecosystem keeps pulling them back in.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Internet addiction and problematic use?”

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