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Short, honest notes on phones, sleep and the two of you.

Phones in the bedroom: what it does to the two of you

Five real studies on sleep, phubbing and relationship satisfaction, and one small ritual that fixes it.

Phubbing: the word for what your partner does with their phone while you're talking

What the research says, why "just put it down" doesn't work, and why doing it together does.

A screen-time pact for two: the rules that actually hold

The hours, the essentials that never lock, the emergency door, a shared record, and nobody checking up on the other.

Brick, Opal, one sec and the rest: good for one person

A fair, current comparison, and what changes when a second person is holding the code.