Have you noticed that your sex life has become practically nonexistent? If the answer is yes, do you also have a blackberry from which you are inseparable? Therein may lie the answer to your little sex problem:
Married couples are not the only ones being affected by the home invasion of wireless technology. Ask any upwardly mobile single and they’ll tell you that they’re often too busy getting ahead in the boardroom to get busy in the bedroom. “Unfortunately, technology is the modern-day equivalent to the spinster chaperone,” says Lisa Daily, author of Stop Getting Dumped! All You Need to Know to Make Men Fall Madly in Love with You and Marry “The One” in 3 Years Or Less.
“Once you finally manage to squeeze in a romantic dinner and maybe a meaningful conversation, our technological umbilical cord to the office starts buzzing away and the mood--and maybe the opportunity--is lost.”
Patricia A. Farrell, Ph.D., an Englewood, N.J.-based clinical psychologist and author of How to Be Your Own Therapist: A Step-by-Step Guide to Taking Back Your Life, often treats couples for whom work comes first at the expense of their relationships. “Time seems to be allocated for so much work and work-related activity that relationships are suffering,” Farrell says. “When couples are free from [work], often they have a feeling of guilt because they [think they] should be doing something other than relaxing and enjoying each other’s company.”
Enter the BlackBerry. Faced with an increasing workload, Americans are relying more and more on personal digital assistants (PDAs) with e-mail access such as the BlackBerry, Palm's (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) Treo, Motorola's (nyse: MOT - news - people ) Q-Phone and soon, Apple's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iPhone. But surveys show we’re not using these devices to reign in our work hours; instead we’re adopting technology to help us work harder, faster and longer.
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Posted by: Lee | January 11, 2007 at 07:59 PM