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I interpret this to mean that social media addiction (or what have you) is an additional burden to deal with when doing the day to day maintenance work of a relationship. Like, it's probably harder to do fun things together (especially spontaneously) when the other person is already entertained on their phone. Or maybe a partner is letting their household chores slip because they are spending too much time on their phone. (So then the other person has to be the asshole asking them to do it, which can seem infantilizing and create resentment on both sides). And making the relationship harder will push you more towards the "divorce" realm than otherwise.

I've had friends mention the deterioration of their older parent's relationship due to phone addiction. One said her mother couldn't even properly enjoy a vacation because going out dinner dinner or a hike required putting the phone away for too long. Basically it is similar to the problems caused by any other addiction.