{"id":5295,"date":"2022-04-08T10:37:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T08:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/08\/nudge-nudge-could-a-couples-app-revive-your-relationship\/"},"modified":"2022-04-08T10:37:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T08:37:32","slug":"nudge-nudge-could-a-couples-app-revive-your-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/08\/nudge-nudge-could-a-couples-app-revive-your-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Nudge, nudge: could a couples\u2019 app revive your relationship?"},"content":{"rendered":"

First came self-care. Now it\u2019s all about relationship maintenance. But can texts, prompts and emojis really bring you and your partner closer?<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, while scrolling Instagram and passing silent judgement on a stranger\u2019s interior decoration choices, I was served an ad for Paired. The app promised \u201c10 minutes a day to a better relationship\u201d via quizzes designed by therapists and academics to spark more meaningful conversations. Had Alexa been eavesdropping on that row we had about the recycling? Either way, an algorithm had staged an intervention.<\/p>\n

At no other point in our history have we scrutinised our relationships so closely. Two years of semi-confinement in homes that doubled as co-working spaces or classrooms will do that. Across the cultural spectrum, via the BBC\u2019s fly-on-the wall Couples Therapy<\/a>, or Gwyneth and her wolverine claw in Netflix\u2019s Sex, Love & Goop<\/a>, we are hooked on psychoanalysing other people\u2019s relationships. What Paired, Relish, Coupleness, Love Nudge (if you can look beyond the name) and a growing number of other couples\u2019 apps are doing is turning that fascination inward. It\u2019s relationship maintenance for the time-poor, self-care curious \u2013 and business is booming. <\/p>\n

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\nFirst came self-care. Now it\u2019s all about relationship maintenance. But can texts, prompts and emojis really bring you and your partner closer?
\nA few weeks ago, while scrolling Instagram and passing silent judgement on a stranger\u2019s interior decoration choices, I was served an ad for Paired. The app promised \u201c10 minutes a day to a better relationship\u201d via quizzes designed by therapists and academics to spark more meaningful conversations. Had Alexa been eavesdropping on that row we had about the recycling? Either way, an algorithm had staged an intervention.
\nAt no other point in our history have we scrutinised our relationships so closely. Two years of semi-confinement in homes that doubled as co-working spaces or classrooms will do that. Across the cultural spectrum, via the BBC\u2019s fly-on-the wall Couples Therapy, or Gwyneth and her wolverine claw in Netflix\u2019s Sex, Love & Goop, we are hooked on psychoanalysing other people\u2019s relationships. What Paired, Relish, Coupleness, Love Nudge (if you can look beyond the name) and a growing number of other couples\u2019 apps are doing is turning that fascination inward. It\u2019s relationship maintenance for the time-poor, self-care curious \u2013 and business is booming. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First came self-care. Now it\u2019s all about relationship maintenance. But can texts, prompts and emojis really bring you and your partner closer? A few weeks ago, while scrolling Instagram and passing silent judgement on a stranger\u2019s interior decoration choices, I was served an ad for Paired. The app promised \u201c10 minutes a day to a …<\/p>\n

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