My spouse and I use a couples therapy app and it's helping us communicate better but something feels mechanical about following prompts to talk about our feelings and I'm worried we're learning to perform intimacy rather than actually be intimate. We're both afraid to stop using it because it's working but also afraid we're replacing real connection with a digital substitute.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are caught between the efficiency of technological assistance and the uncertainty of their own unguided capacity for intimacy.
“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.