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Well, how often have you been caught not listening to your spouse?

Now, I love my devices, my phone, my iPad, my laptop, it's easy for me to get distracted but truth be told I'm a newspaper

guy I still get the newspaper six days a week I read the newspaper and if

Dina wants my attention I've got to set whatever it is the device or the paper down and really giver my eyes and my ears

I'm John Fuller in the studio with Greg and Aaron Smalley and they're not distracted at all

I mean Greg couples I'm actually guessing in all

seriousness really do complain a lot about he or she's not listening to me

what do you think? Oh completely and. And I think there's two main problems that we see. One is there's a term called techno-ferrence. Technophirance. Technophirance.

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