{"id":365,"date":"2018-06-07T14:03:17","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T14:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop.honestreflections.net\/?p=365"},"modified":"2019-12-10T08:43:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T13:43:56","slug":"confessions-of-a-phubber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2018\/06\/07\/confessions-of-a-phubber\/","title":{"rendered":"Confessions of a Phubber"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Be devoted to one another in love.\u00a0 Honor one another above yourselves.”\u00a0 Romans 12:10<\/strong><\/em>
\nHave you ever heard of phubbing?\u00a0 I hadn’t until last night.\u00a0 Hubby and I are doing a fun study together called “Five Dates” by Mike and Jennifer Foster.\u00a0 You literally go on five dates with your significant other.\u00a0 It guides you through great conversations.\u00a0 Each has a different topic and is designed to help deepen your relationship.
\nLast night’s topic was “presence”.\u00a0 It started by talking about phubbing.\u00a0 Phubbing is a combination of the words phone<\/em> and snubbing<\/em>. It describes the moment when someone pays more attention to their phone than to the person they are with at the time.\u00a0 What an eye opener for me.\u00a0 I am a total phubber, especially when it comes to my husband.
\nI don’t think it’s a coincidence we’re doing this study.\u00a0 I also don’t think it’s a coincidence they started with phubbing.\u00a0 I’ve been convicted of this for some time now.\u00a0 I’ve come to realize, the more comfortable you are with someone, the more you are able to phub them without realizing it.
\nIn complete honesty, the book asked us to rate ourselves on how much of a phubber we are on a scale from 1-10, 10 being the worst.\u00a0 I rated myself an 8 and my husband did not disagree with my assessment.
\nGratefully, I’m more aware of it than ever now.\u00a0 I’ll be more conscious about it in all of my relationships.\u00a0 That was the discussion hubby and I had last night.\u00a0 It doesn’t just pertain to marriage, it can pertain to all types of relationships.
\nDid you know on average people check their phones over 150 times a day?\u00a0 That’s about every 10 minutes or so.\u00a0 Can you believe in such a short time we’ve developed such an addiction to a device that wasn’t even present 20 years ago?\u00a0 It literally is ruining marriages!\u00a0 For some reason, we think whatever is on the phone is more important than the person who is in front of us, including our husband and kids.
\nWhat are we missing by being so addicted to our phones?\u00a0 What moments have passed us by and we didn’t even notice?\u00a0 It makes my heart hurt to think of the lost moments with my husband.
\nThe good news is today is a new day.\u00a0 I can always change my priorities.\u00a0 I can always work harder at my marriage.\u00a0 I can always pay attention to the moments God gives me today.
\nHere’s the question, are you a phubber too?\u00a0 Be honest, it won’t hurt, it can only help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Be devoted to one another in love.\u00a0 Honor one another above yourselves.”\u00a0 Romans 12:10 Have you ever heard of phubbing?\u00a0 I hadn’t until last night.\u00a0 Hubby and I are doing a fun study together called “Five Dates” by Mike and Jennifer Foster.\u00a0 You literally go on five dates with your significant other.\u00a0 It guides you… Continue reading Confessions of a Phubber<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1546,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/1546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}