We get so caught up with our Technology that we are losing our ability to connect without it. Is Technology Making it Harder to Find Love? You’re too young to remember when people went on dates and actually talked to each other, without the intrusion of technology into their interactions. Maybe you can’t remember a time when people just hung out together and connected. I can, and I have to say, I miss those days. It used to be that people could really get to know each other by spending time together. We’d talk about all sorts of things – our hopes, dreams, and fears – until we began to feel that ineffable thing known as a “connection.” Today, technology is ubiquitous. We bring our phones everywhere and look at them dozens, if not hundreds of times a day. We spend more time interacting with our technology than we do with the people in our lives. And all the time we spend with our technology is making it harder for us to connect with other people. Recent studies bear out this notion. I wrote an article in 2016 about how our addiction to technology is making dating even harder than it usually is. An NBC poll from 2015 showed that more than 70% of Americans believe that technology is making our relationships weaker. A 2016 Time Magazine article by Mandy Oaklander quotes a study published in the journal Psychology of Popular Media Culture, which found that “people who were more dependent on their smartphones reported being less certain about their partnerships,” and that “People who felt that their partners were overly dependent on their devices said they were less satisfied with their relationship.” Everywhere you go, you can see how technology has changed the way people interact. I was out last New Year’s Eve, having dinner in a...

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