A couple. Photo/courtsey
Nothing kills romance faster than focusing more on your smartphone, and now, research confirms it. Being attached to your phone appears to have an effect on your relationship towards your loved one.
In today’s culture, we spend over 4 hours a day on our phones, from sending texts to flicking through social media. That amounts to around 86 hours a month on average. Let’s say that we spend 8 hours asleep per day, leaving 16 hours awake. Of those 16 hours, we spend 4 hours on a phone (25%), and tied with work and cooking and so on accounts to a large amount of our day. So how do we find time to spend with someone we love and care passionately, without being on our phone at the same time? The simple answer is we don’t. An extract from some research done on this found that “three-quarters of women in long-term relationships claim they feel that smartphones are interfering with their love lives” Couples are more likely to be fully immersed in their phone rather than having a face to face conversation. This leads to anxiety and a poor relationship where both partners don’t fully trust each other due to a lack of spending time together.
As a result, we've become overly hooked up to digital communication, regarding real life communication as a secondary part. People should put more focus and emphasis on relationships despite the digital era which has taken over the relationship.