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When couples struggle to disconnect from phones together

My partner and I both scroll endlessly when we're together and we keep promising each other we'll put our phones away for real quality time but then one of us always breaks first when there's a notification or we're just sitting in silence and it feels easier to escape into our feeds than figure out what we actually want to talk about.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people wanting genuine connection but finding digital escape easier than the vulnerability of undivided presence.

Ideas that help explain it
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