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How digital dependency changes intimate relationships

My partner and I both get anxiety when we don't have cell service and we realized we've forgotten how to be alone together without our phones as backup.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Constant connectivity becomes a crutch that weakens our capacity for unmediated presence.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Technology and relationships?”

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