My fiancé is addicted to his phone. He jokes about it, but he knows he has a problem with it. I find it to be entirely disappointing because when we first started dating he never brought out his phone and I remember thinking how nice it was that this guy in his 20s could go a couple hours without checking his phone and focus his attention on getting to know me.
The thing is, I'm 30 and just like him grew up with technology and understand wanting to check your phone periodically for messages and social media updates or email. What bothers me, is that in the middle of a conversation, with me or when we're out with people, he'll just pull out his phone and start scrolling. Not only is it incredibly rude, it is hurtful and makes it impossible then to have a conversation with him about it.
We've discussed this before and whenever I explain how it hurts me that he's more interested in responding to his group chat with his buddies from back home than listening to me tell him something he feels bad and makes a concerted effort to change his habit. Inevitably though, he ends up being obsessed with his phone again.
Has anyone else dealt with anything like this or been successful in kicking their phone/social media habit?
The thing is, I'm 30 and just like him grew up with technology and understand wanting to check your phone periodically for messages and social media updates or email. What bothers me, is that in the middle of a conversation, with me or when we're out with people, he'll just pull out his phone and start scrolling. Not only is it incredibly rude, it is hurtful and makes it impossible then to have a conversation with him about it.
We've discussed this before and whenever I explain how it hurts me that he's more interested in responding to his group chat with his buddies from back home than listening to me tell him something he feels bad and makes a concerted effort to change his habit. Inevitably though, he ends up being obsessed with his phone again.
Has anyone else dealt with anything like this or been successful in kicking their phone/social media habit?