To combat addiction, try a social media 'fast'
After only 24 hours or so, you might feel "scrubbed" from the desire to reach for the phone. And then, once you stop missing it, you realize you're not missing much. This experience will help to modulate your usage.
Other people I know have traded in their "smart" devices for flip phones, and that seems like a radical and righteous choice for anyone who feels addicted.
Dear Amy: My wife divorced me in 1978. She had a son whom I adopted after we married. He was eight when we divorced.
I was in the Air Force and they were in another state, but I tried to stay in touch. Every time that I tried to see him, she would come up with an excuse as to why it was not a good time.
This went on for 10 years after the divorce. I wrote to my son, but he never responded. He got married and sent my mother and my sister (his aunt) an invitation, but not me.
I had a heart attack and my sister told him about it, but he never got in touch.
I finally sent him one last letter to tell him that I was no longer going to try to stay in touch because it has been obvious that he wants nothing to do with me.
He told my sister that I had sent him a very nasty letter (not true).
I believe that my ex-wife has told him a false story that has influenced him.
Do you have any other ideas as to what I could do?
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