Tinder and Instagram are ‘crippling’ relationships, sex therapist Esther Perel says

Tinder and Instagram are ‘crippling’ relationships, sex therapist Esther Perel says

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https://www.recode.net/2018/3/21/17141182/esther-perel-sex-relationships-dating-apps-tinder-instagram-loneliness-kara-swisher-decode-podcast

Most people would define “cheating” in a relationship as sleeping with another person, without your partner’s consent. But psychotherapist Esther Perel says some couples are cheating on each other constantly — with their phones.

“As one of my patients recently said: ‘Every night, I go to bed and she’s on Instagram, in the bed,’” Perel said on the latest episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher. “And it’s like, ‘I’m lonely! I just want to chat, to talk, to connect. She’s just getting lost.’”