If you have had a romantic partner, you’ve most likely had the maddening experience of realizing that while you were blabbering on about something or another, they were focused on their phone. As relationship transgressions go, “phubbing” — a portmanteau of “phone” and “snubbing” — is, on the surface, fairly benign. Yet research increasingly shows it can be insidious. A recent study linked higher levels of phubbing to marital dissatisfaction, and a 2022 study found it can lead to feelings of dis
News reports find there are some benefits, as well as cautions against, sleeping separately as a couple. Is sleep divorce common? What are the benefits of sleep divorce? Is sleep divorce bad?