#phubbing
9 articles on phubbing.
- 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.
10 min read