Me Tarzan, Me Distracted: When Screens Steal Connection
(Tarzan & Jane Series: Part 3 of 6)
The Setup
Marriages today face an unlikely competitor—not another person, but a screen.
Jane noticed Tarzan’s attention shifting. The iPad in the mornings. Sports in the evenings. Then came the rabbit holes: whiskey reaction videos, music reactions, movie reactions. What stung most? Many of those clips featured women—emotional, expressive, even scantily dressed.
Tarzan was captivated. Jane was invisible.
And she thought: Why are you more curious about strangers’ feelings than about mine?
The Drift
Screens are easy. They’re entertaining. They don’t ask for effort. But when a spouse gives more energy to pixels than to their partner, intimacy erodes.
“Me Tarzan, Me Distracted” might sound funny, but in Jane’s heart, it was lonely.
The Crossroads
This isn’t just Tarzan and Jane’s story—it’s countless couples. Screens steal the moments that used to belong to each other. And while distraction feels harmless, it often plants the deepest cracks.
The Takeaway
Put down the screen. Pick up your spouse’s face.
Be more curious about their emotions than a stranger’s.
Watch your marriage—not just your shows.
Because marriages rarely collapse in one big storm. They erode one unnoticed distraction at a time.
🌴 Jungle Laugh: “Tarzan thought Jane meant ‘share the load.’ Turns out she meant the laundry.”
💡 Because if we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane — Jimmy Buffett
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