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When family phone rules create unexpected alliances

Our whole family agreed to a no-phones policy during meals and my teenager follows it but my spouse keeps checking work emails and I'm caught between enforcing rules that aren't being modeled and letting the whole thing fall apart.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The complexity of shared agreements when different family members struggle with different aspects of change.

Ideas that help explain it
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