Me Tarzan, Me Distracted: When Screens Steal Connection
(Tarzan & Jane Story Series: Part 3 of 6)
It started small. An iPad in the morning. Sports in the evening. Then new shows—reaction videos where people tried whiskey, or listened to songs for the first time. Jane, busy and purposeful, didn’t get it. Why waste time on this? she thought.
But what really stung was when the reaction videos shifted to movies—most of them featuring women. Emotional women, often scantily dressed, crying at the screen, laughing, wiping tears. And Tarzan? He was enthralled.
When Jane walked into the room, he would quickly change the channel, or head outside to the other TV. But she noticed. She always noticed.
And she thought: It speaks volumes that he is fascinated by strangers’ emotions, but has so little interest in mine—the woman living the real movie of life beside him.
This wasn’t just about screens. It was about distraction. Tarzan wasn’t paying attention to his wife, and Jane was left feeling like she couldn’t compete with pixels on a screen.
It’s easy to laugh at the joke—“Me Tarzan, Me Distracted.” But the truth is, this is how marriages slowly drift apart.
The solution isn’t complicated, but it does take intention:
Replace screen time with spouse time.
Be curious about your partner’s feelings. Ask, “How are you really doing?” and mean it.
Notice your spouse. Screens demand our attention. So should the person we vowed to love.
Because marriages aren’t destroyed by one big blow. They erode when we give our best attention to a device, and only leftovers to the person beside us.
🌴 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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