Cell Phones Devastation To Relationships

Cell Phones’ Devastation to Relationships The devastation that cell phones perpetrate on relationships is astronomical. No longer a dance of seduction, dating has become a ring or vibration on a cell phone. Marriages and long-term relationships have allowed the cell phone to become the third “person” in the room. Causing a distance over time, which may not be restored. Relationships, new or old, die when the two committed people stop talking. Cellphones have changed the way society in the twenty-first century runs on a daily bases from the screeching alarm waking people up in the morning to the friendly birthday reminder. With regard to relationships, cellphones devastate the bonds and intimacy involved in dating, marriage, …show more content…
Couples have many obligations such as children, work, other family members, and friends. These obligations can leave very little time for one another (Przybylski and Weinstein ). Marriage is a dance of give and take. Dave Boehi a senior editor at Family Life also the author of I Still Do, stated that couples must make time for each other along with their other obligations. Uninterrupted moments in time were nothing can come between them (Boehi). Throughout years of marriage, keeping track of family and close friends can be time consuming for a couple, but it can be accomplished if they worked together (Boehi). With cell phones there is often a constant interruption causing a lack of intimacy, and communication (Smith and Duggan). When texting becomes your first and often only way of communicating marital destruction is almost guaranteed to follow (Miller-Ott, Kelly and Robert). The divorce rate has risen by 13% in the past ten years, Dr. Helen Lee Lin from the University of Houston believes that half of this is due to the fact that the cell phones, combined with social media, have caused a separation between the couple (Lin). In California 28% of divorce documents state the cause of the divorce is due to cellphone use, Facebook, and/ or the internet (Pew Research). Cell phones, as proven, can cause distance …show more content…
Over time “the third person in the room” can create a separation in a marriage that cannot withstand the test of time. Communication is so much more than just talking, it’s a glance, the smell of cologne or perfume, and more. These things are all unachievable by cell phone, but necessary to find that one person that fits your life. Though cell phones has made keeping families in contact much easier than it was in the past for instance when there is an emergency everyone is a text away. Cell phones are not going away, but the changes that people have allowed them to cause in their relationships is