What Your Phone Does To The People You Love

In Your Right Mind with Monique Rhodes · Oct 30, 2026 · 15m

You're at dinner, someone's telling you something, and you pick up your phone for just a second. They stop talking, and when they start again, they tell you a shorter version.

Almost everybody does this, because it's become so normal that nobody notices. But the research shows it does far more harm than most people realize, and it can affect how the people you love feel about their whole life.

I share what researchers found when they tracked couples and their phones, why it doesn't matter that it was only a second, and the one change that makes the biggest difference.

Ready to break the cycle…