The Family Becomes What It Repeatedly Interrupts: How Modern Families Quietly Lose Emotional Connection (opens in new tab)

More and more couples and families are experiencing each other primarily through interruption. Not cruelty. Not betrayal. Interruption. A strange thing has happened to modern intimacy. Life partners now routinely tell each other: “I’m listening,” while simultaneously glancing at a glowing rectangle containing Ukrainian drone footage, celebrity divorce rumors, protein powder advertisements, weather anxiety, a former classmate’s suspiciously photogenic vacation in Mallorca, and a man explaining...