Smartphones are an advantageous and widely used invention of the modern world that is always by our sides. But preferring to use a phone in the company of your significant other can cause issues. Here are 4 ways in which smartphones can adversely affect your relationship.

1. Partner Neglect
Ignoring your partner or worse, snubbing your partner for the sake of using a phone is a very disrespectful action and leads to an evidently unhappy and hence, weak relationship.

2. Interfering with Your Sex Life:                                                          A healthy, fulfilling relationship requires affection, intimacy, and sex. However, it has become increasingly visible that people spend more time using their phones than touching their partners during a day. To worsen it, some people have also confessed to using a phone during intercourse. These actions result in a very empty and unsatisfying love life.

3. Too Much Temptation
While drawing you away from your partner, the smartphone also attracts you towards chances of infidelity that it provides through the internet. There, you can find a lot of people that you can get attracted to, leading to cheating on your partner. This practice also leads to divorces.

4. Busting Down Communication
Smartphones have altered the way of talking for most people who have shifted to texting more regularly than interpersonal communication. This results in misinterpretation of the tone of voice and also limits human interaction.

To avoid losing your beautiful relationship to smartphone addiction, here are 4 things you can do to strengthen it.

1. Schedule Tech-Free Time
This is a useful technique where couples decide to avoid all technological devices for certain duration throughout the day to spend quality time together.

2. Acknowledge Valid Phone Use
It is also important to note that smartphones are useful in daily lives like checking up on your loved ones. Hence, couples should also recognize the positive use of smartphones while practicing tech-free time.

3. Include Your Spouse
If you have to use your phone in your partner’s company, it is advised to use it to communicate with them by playing games, sharing memes, or sending messages.

4. Focus on Quality Time Together
Smartphones can be extremely useful to us throughout our day but when it comes to spending time with our loved ones—and especially our better halves—it is important to realize that smartphones are of secondary importance. Therefore, no matter how important your social media or your friends’ Whatsapp group might seem, ignore it for this while and give time to your life partner.

Cell phones, doubtlessly, are no less than a technological wonder. They assist us in every aspect of our lives and help us communicate, work, enjoy, and even learn. But to benefit from it to the fullest and to avoid it affecting our personal lives, we must establish ground rules so that we don’t allow a mere tool to interfere in our loving relationships.