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When couples have different phone boundaries affecting intimacy

My partner and I have completely different relationships with our phones and it's affecting our intimacy - I need presence and eye contact to feel close and they text constantly even during conversations and we've talked about it but nothing changes because they say I'm being controlling.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are trying to be close while operating from fundamentally different understandings of what presence means.

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“Where Are You with Technology and intimacy?”

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