How Smartphones Is Ruining Your Relationship

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Smartphones and Relationships

Why can such a popular object in our lives, like a smartphone, have control over our relationships? Some may say that smartphones help the relationship and others may say they damage a relationship. There are positive and negative views of smartphones and relationships and that is what the debate is about. Some people can agree that smartphones heal and help relationships. Some can say that being able to call and communicate right away is a great comfort and is healthy because you’re always in touch with your significant other. In Mandy Oaklander’s article, How Your Smartphone is Ruining Your Relationship , she claims that “intimate touch with an partner through calling and texting makes people happier and more secure in their relationships”. That is why a person can agree that smartphones help the relationship.
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Many people can agree with the fact that smartphones make the interactions bland and empty. In the article by Mandy Oaklander, How Your Smartphone is Ruining Your Relationship, she states that “ real-life interactions are dulled when a person feels the urge to check their phone, and the distraction an phone afford one partner doesn’t make the other person feel good”. That is why some can say that smartphones damage a relationship. My stance on the issue of smartphones and relationships is that smartphones do ruin our relationships. Smartphones are in control of us and can damage relationships. Relationships and technology should not go together. They are not a good combination. Relationships need to

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