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For A Better Marriage, Put Down Your Phone

Doomscrolling causes strife in the home

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Ben Domenech
Jul 26, 2023
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Wendy Wang and Michael Toscano at IFStudies.

Reflecting on more than 25 years of practice, therapist Andrew Sofin recently observed:

Smartphones have caused more upheaval than anything I’ve seen in my career. We’ve normalized them being intrusive and taking precedence when people are lying in bed, playing Wordle or scrolling through TikTok rather than tal…

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