When phone breakups fail, it’s usually due to a lack of preparation. As we’ve touched on, people tend to try to change their relationships with their phones without first asking themselves what they actually want their relationships with their phones to be. They start with a vague goal—“I want to spend less time on my phone”—without specifying what they’re actually trying to change or accomplish, or identifying why they reach for their phones to begin with. Then they try to go cold turkey, and end up feeling discouraged and powerless when it doesn’t work.
