335: Is Your Phone Killing Your Relationship?

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

Relationships, Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Modern tech has given us a lot of great things that can positively impact our lives. However, using technology in a mindful way is more important than ever. Listen to today's show to learn how to use technology to improve your relationship and not kill it. In this episode with Dr. Michelle Drouin, we discuss relationship advice topics that include: Why the world is experiencing an intimacy famine according to Dr. Drouin How to create more intimacy in your life How to stop responding to our phone's demands The importance of creating sexual sponteniety with your partner and how to do it Using your phone to create more connection, not less And much more! For more information on our guest, and for the episode links visit: https://idopodcast.com/335 Sign up for our 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge here: 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge Do you want to hear more on this topic? Continue the conversation on our Facebook Group here: Love Tribe Sponsors Foria is an innovative health and sexual wellness company that designs all-natural sexual intimacy products for women, people with vulvas, and the people who love them. Get 20% off your first order by visiting foriawellness.com/ido Feeld: Dating for humans. Feeld is the alternative dating platform for couples and singles, open to all genders and sexual identities. Download the app here: https://feeld.onelink.me/TRZt/Radvice Fabulous: Start building your ideal daily routine today with Fabulous Premium! Get 25% off Fabulous Premium by going to TheFab.co/ido. Nutrafol: You can grow thicker, healthier hair AND support our show by going to Nutrafol.com and entering the promo code IDO to save $15 your first month’s subscription Spark My Relationship Course: Get $100 off our online course. Visit SparkMyRelationship.com/Unlock for our special offer just for our I Do Podcast listeners! If you love this episode (and our podcast!), would you mind giving us a review in iTunes? It would mean the world to us and we promise it only takes a minute. Many thanks in advance! – Chase & Sarah Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey guys, thanks so much for tuning in.
0:24.0	Hey guys, thanks so much for tuning in to today's show. I just had a great conversation with Dr.
0:35.5	Michelle Drewyn and Dr. Drewyn is a behavioral scientist and expert on technology, relationships,
0:42.6	couples and sexuality whose work has been featured or cited in the New York Times, CBS news, CNN,
0:50.1	MPR and other media outlets. She is a professor of psychology at Purdue University and a senior
0:57.9	research scientist at the Parkview Miro Center for Research and Innovation and she has a book
1:05.0	coming out called Out of Touch, How to Survive an Intimacy Famine and that's exactly what we talk
1:12.1	about what intimacy is, what an intimacy famine is and the remedies for it and a lot of it has
1:21.6	to do with technology and how it's been introduced into our lives and Michelle gives us some really
1:28.8	great tools on how to use it and embrace it because a lot of things that I know I see and
1:36.0	have implemented is just like digital detox, get the phone away from me and I think that's important
1:41.4	and there's a place for that but like it or not it's in our lives and there's ways that we can
1:47.5	use it to connect more with our partner, with our friends, with our family, with our kids and
1:53.6	Michelle gives us some great tools to do that and lots more so I really enjoyed today's conversation.
2:01.2	Hope you guys are having a great day wherever you're listening to this or evening or night. I really
2:06.5	appreciate you tuning in, telling your friends and family about the show and leaving those five
2:12.8	star iTunes reviews that helps us get seen by more people to just give them this information because
2:20.7	I'm just here long for the ride. I get to have interesting conversations and get the tools and
2:26.7	information right alongside you and I'm really thankful for that so as always thanks again and enjoy
2:34.9	today's show.
2:44.1	Hi Michelle thanks so much for joining me on the show today. Thanks for having me.
2:48.9	I want to start by talking about something that that you're really pushing and I won't say
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