Hello everyone,
My wife spends 8-10 hours a day on her smartphone, surfing Facebook and texting her girlfriends. I have told her she has an addiction and needs to seek help. She agrees it is unhealthy but won't make any changes. Attempts to confront her further result in angry counter-accusations and silent treatment.
This has been going on for about three years, and her life is falling apart. She has almost completely stopped cooking and cleaning, spends almost no time with our young kids, gets no exercise and her health is suffering. She has gained 40 pounds in the last year. Her emotional state is spiraling downward. She's depressed and unhappy which drives her onto the smartphone more to escape. She has starting drinking excessively while she surfs her smartphone. She often puts down a whole bottle of wine in an evening. She has lost interest in almost everything outside of her digital world. She has no interest in sex. She doesn't want to go to church anymore. It's sad to watch her spend hours on end staring at her smartphone right in the living room and refusing to interact with the family. Often the kids need to ask her for something right to her face 5-6 times before she snaps out of her smartphone "trance".
Anyone else dealing with this? What should I do? I love her but she is ruining her life as well as our marriage.
My wife spends 8-10 hours a day on her smartphone, surfing Facebook and texting her girlfriends. I have told her she has an addiction and needs to seek help. She agrees it is unhealthy but won't make any changes. Attempts to confront her further result in angry counter-accusations and silent treatment.
This has been going on for about three years, and her life is falling apart. She has almost completely stopped cooking and cleaning, spends almost no time with our young kids, gets no exercise and her health is suffering. She has gained 40 pounds in the last year. Her emotional state is spiraling downward. She's depressed and unhappy which drives her onto the smartphone more to escape. She has starting drinking excessively while she surfs her smartphone. She often puts down a whole bottle of wine in an evening. She has lost interest in almost everything outside of her digital world. She has no interest in sex. She doesn't want to go to church anymore. It's sad to watch her spend hours on end staring at her smartphone right in the living room and refusing to interact with the family. Often the kids need to ask her for something right to her face 5-6 times before she snaps out of her smartphone "trance".
Anyone else dealing with this? What should I do? I love her but she is ruining her life as well as our marriage.