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When couples want less phone use but need more connection

My partner gets really anxious when I don't respond to their texts quickly but they also want us both to use our phones less and we can't figure out how to do both things at once.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Competing desires for presence and availability creating an impossible bind.

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