{"id":1956,"date":"2019-03-26T17:11:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T17:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.xpanded.com\/?p=1956"},"modified":"2019-04-25T15:50:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T15:50:29","slug":"is-texting-really-ruining-our-relationships-yep-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.xpanded.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/26\/is-texting-really-ruining-our-relationships-yep-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Is texting really ruining our relationships? Yep it is"},"content":{"rendered":"

With thousands of ways for us to communicate with each other, the way we choose to mediate our romantic and sexual relationships has become a bizarrely fraught subject. Texting, emailing, messaging, Instagram messaging etc have all come to replace phone calls or even (dare we say it) face to face contact. And according to one study there is one thing that we should stop doing now in order to improve our chances at a relationship or improve communication within a pre-existing one – stop texting! Why? Because we are incapable of telling someone\u2019s tone and it does what one study out of Brigham Young University calls \u201clower relationship quality.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Countless studies have shown that messaging and texting are counterproductive when it comes to early stages of a relationship precisely for this reason. Not only that, but a study carried out by The Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy showed that texting too much or texting about \u2018the wrong things\u2019 could cause havoc to a healthy and already solid relationship!<\/p>\n