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Relationships

“Use technology to enhance

your relationship by sending

each other sexy texts or

emails during the day”

So how do we change some of
our bad habits?
• Agree to put your phones away at an accept- • Do not befriend your ex on Facebook or follow There are, of course,
able time every night, at minimum, it should them on Instagram if you still have any feelings many advantages to using
be at least an hour before you go to bed to for them or it makes your current partner
help you sleep better. uncomfortable. If it was a messy breakup or toxic technology in a relationship,
relationship, trust me, unfriend them and cut all such as the development of
• Leave your phones to charge by a plug that contact – it will help you heal!
is not within reach of the bed – preferably in new relationships through
another room. • Do not advertise EVERY detail of your relation- apps like Tinder, enriching
ship on social media. This is particularly relevant
• When you’re sharing a meal, whether at when you’re angry or hurt (as you’re bound to the relationship through
home or out, cellphones go on silent and say something you’ll regret). If your partner has communication and
get put away (or left in another room during done something to upset you, you should be
dinner at home) and sit down at a table (if telling them… not the world! Don’t cheapen the relationship management,
you can) and not in front of your favorite TV emotional intimacy and connection in a relation- looking up sex positions
show or sport.
ship by advertising your entire relationship with (yes please!), sexting, using
• Again, if you’re worried someone might all ‘768’ of your friends on Facebook. apps like Dipsea for some
need you, like the babysitter, use the ‘do not • Use technology to enhance your relationship by sexy audio erotica or apps
disturb’ function on the phone or leave one sending each other sexy texts or emails during
phone on loud and ask the sitter to only call the day when you’re at work, or using it to plan that help you understand
in an emergency – ignore everything else! your sexual fantasies, like
your weekend or holiday together. Then, when
• If you’re on a date, this is definitely where the you’re finally together at the end of the day, put X Confessions. But let’s be
cellphone has no place. Leave it alone until the phones away and turn the laptops off. totally honest, we managed
after the date. There’s nothing sexy about • Agree on ‘technology rules’ that you’re both
someone who’s more interested in their comfortable with and stick to them! Trust me, no just fine in those areas pre-
phone than the date. smartphones and iPads did
one likes that person who is glued to their phone
• Do not reach for your phone first thing in the while you’re in their company, rather than actu- we not? Hand-written love
morning, but rather reach for your partner! ally engaging with them. letter anyone?