Is Technology Causing Your Marriage to Nose-Dive Towards Divorce?

Think about the number of hours that you spend watching TV, texting, talking on your cell phone or surfing the internet.  Honestly, do the math.  Its scary.

Marriages have been suffering due to this huge influx of technological advancements.  Not only are they a distraction and drain on your time, time which could be spent with your spouse, they have opened pandora’s box.   Now you have access to pornography, dating sites, social sites like Facebook and Twitter, and can text, chat and web-cam with strangers or lovers.  The list could go on.  Are all of these “freedoms” truly liberating us, or leading to the demise of the social fabric of our lives and marriages?

“These techno-distractions are at least one factor in the disintegration of civic engagement, and as a result, in the quality and stability of marriages, according to W. Brad Wilcox, editor of the most recent edition of “State of Our Unions,” an annual report detailing the state of marriage in America. On Tuesday, Wilcox discussed the study’s findings in New York with Elizabeth Marquardt, the director of the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute of American Values at New York’s Center for Public Conversation.”

Is there a correlation between technology and divorce?  What do you think?

Read the entire article here:  https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/09/technology-and-divorce-a-_n_794643.html