07/25/2025
📱 Continuous Partial Attention: The Silent Strain on Modern Relationships
In today’s always-on world, we’re more connected than ever but emotionally more distant than we realize.
This thoughtful sketch by perfectly captures a scene many of us know too well: conversations half-heard, moments half-felt, and partners slowly drifting apart not from conflict, but from distraction.
As a board-certified psychiatrist who also provides couples therapy, Arnab Datta, MD sees this pattern often in his clinical work. He reminds clients that, “Presence isn’t just proximity it’s where we place our attention.” It’s about how we stop really seeing, hearing, and feeling the people we care about.
Emotional attunement fades not because love is gone, but because attention & empathic depth has been scattered across pings, replies, and routines.
🧠 At Tresna Mental Health, Arnab Datta, MD helps couples and individuals rebuild emotional presence using relational self-awareness, mindfulness practices, and communication tools rooted in depth psychology and modern neuroscience. Whether you’re navigating burnout in a long-term relationship or simply noticing that your conversations have grown more surface-level, it’s not too late to reconnect.
Empathic depth and presence isn’t so quick - this attention has an emotionality to it, an intentionality and authenticity - then it’s felt by the other person and by ourselves.
Have you noticed this in your relationship or family? How do you come back to presence?
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