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Friends, I am lucky to have met my beautiful wife before the need for a smartphone became something that was commonplace.
When she and I began dating, everyone had cell phones but there wasn’t exactly a whole heck of a lot to do on them. I mean, unless you liked looking at your contacts list over and over.
We have smartphones now, but we are those types that from a certain hour to a certain hour things just go off. We just turn them off, put them in a drawer, and leave them alone. Sure, we have the Apple Watches that you can use as a phone, but you can’t exactly play too many games or time waste with those.
It helps us keep connected to each other. After so many years of marriage, it is always good to have that second or third date feeling where you want nothing more than to talk to the person you are married to.
Then again, there are some people who the phones are quite literally ruining their marriage. There’s this strange phenomenon that has come to light in recent years called “phubbing”.
It is apparently a mixture of the words phone and snubbing.
Let me give you an example. Say you are talking to someone and the whole time you are speaking to them you they are scrolling through their phone or playing a game. They aren’t really paying attention to you. That’s phubbing.
As people spend more and more time on their phones and less time actually staring and talking to each other, connections get harder to maintain.
That and there is always the suspicion that a spouse would have of someone that is on the phone that they might be engaging in unfaithful behavior.
It’s why more people need to get their heads out of the screens for a little bit each day. It’s why I personally have a music player that it is the only thing that it does.
When my wife and I go out to eat, we leave our phones in the car. Too many people are treating their phones like a golden calf.
And you remember what the Good Book said about them golden calfs…
