#phubbing
11 articles on phubbing.
- Modern Pressures
Phone Addiction in Relationships: A Free Recovery Workbook
A free phone addiction in relationships recovery workbook: four printable couples exercises to track, map triggers, set shared norms, and repair slips.
10 min read - Modern Pressures
Phone Snubbing and Mental Health: The Toll of Being Ignored
Phone snubbing quietly wears on the ignored partner's mental health. What the research says it does, why it isn't oversensitivity, and what helps.
10 min read - Modern Pressures
Digital Distraction and Secure Attachment: How Screens Erode Your Emotional Safety Net
Digital distraction and secure attachment work against each other: why phone interruptions thin your felt safety, and the daily window that rebuilds it.
10 min read - Modern Pressures
Phubbing Partner Co-Regulation Scripts: What to Say Instead of 'Put Your Phone Down'
Phubbing partner co-regulation scripts that name your need and invite them back, so a bid for attention never becomes a fight about the phone.
10 min read - Modern Pressures
Phubbing and Attachment Anxiety: Why Phone Snubbing Triggers a Fear of Abandonment
Phubbing triggers attachment anxiety by reading as abandonment. Here's the mechanism, the research on partner phubbing, and how both of you work with it.
10 min read - Modern Pressures
Phone Addiction in Marriage: What the Statistics Say
Phone addiction in marriage by the numbers: what the phubbing and technoference research found, how strong the effects are, and what it means.
10 min read - Modern Pressures
Digital Distraction and Childhood Attachment Styles: Why Some Partners React More Than Others
Digital distraction and childhood attachment styles, explained: why a partner's phone wounds some people far more, and how both sides can work with it.
12 min read - Modern Pressures
Phubbing Partner Validation Scripts: What to Say When You Feel Invisible
Phubbing partner validation scripts: exact phrases that name the loneliness without attacking, built on the Gottman complaint-not-criticism distinction.
10 min read - Modern Pressures
Digital Distraction and Gottman's Four Horsemen
How digital distraction feeds Gottman's Four Horsemen: the technoference research, the causal path from phubbing to contempt, and how to interrupt it.
10 min read - Modern Pressures
Phubbing in Relationships: What the Research Says
Phubbing in relationships, by the numbers: what the peer-reviewed research actually found about phone-snubbing your partner, and the limits of the evidence.
10 min read - Modern Pressures
Phubbing Recovery Plan for Couples: A 14-Day Protocol to Break the Phone Habit Together
A research-backed 14-day plan two partners can run together to put the phone down, repair attention, and rebuild closeness, without lectures.
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