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One Evening a Week Without Screens

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Our flat has kept one evening a week without screens since January. It was my partner's idea and I argued against it. I expected it to feel like a . It felt like a punishment for about three weeks. Then it became the evening we against everything else.

I want to be careful here, because this advice is usually sold . Nobody in this flat has become calmer or . We have not read more books; we have read the same two slowly. What changed is smaller and stranger than that. Conversations now last past their natural end. There is no polite place to stop, so we keep going.

The hardest part was not the phones. It was the fact that a screen an silence. Without one, a silence has to be or filled. On the third Tuesday my partner asked me a question about my father. We had been married nine years and it had never come up. That is not a ; it is just time that had nowhere to hide.

I would not recommend this to everyone. If you live alone, an evening without a screen may simply be . If your work arrives by message at nine at night, the rule is . And one evening is nothing against six others. I am not a , only a change I can notice. Try it twice before you judge. We keep it because it is the only evening neither of us can remember badly. That seems worth one night of being bored.

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