My husband and I have been together for 10 years and married for 2 1/2. We have an issue with communication and it is fair to say that since our daughter was born a year ago we are both 'snappier' with each other. Things that normally would just be a minor discussion blow up into full blown arguments when they really shouldn't. Some of the issues come from the fact that In the past I have compromised all of the time for a quiet life. I wouldn't make an issue of something that upsets me in case my husband got annoyed and it started an argument. However, that doesn't work. My husband just expects even more from me and now I am starting to feel resentful. I am trying to work on these issues because I am really unhappy and I know it cant go on. I am standing up for myself a bit more and that is causing issues. I have gone from doing as he wants to starting to insist he is more reasonable and he is finding that quite an adjustment. I feel that I am quick to anger is because I am resentful at the way my husband treats me, and one of the reasons for this is his mobile phone. There is not an hour that goes by that he is not on it. If we go out in the car and I drive he is on his phone for the whole journey. If we sit down at a restaurant he pulls the phone out and sits on it. Sitting next to each other on the settee there is no conversation because he is either on his laptop, his kindle or his bloody phone. I hate it. He will even sit on the phone ignoring his daughter because he is too engrossed in it. Last night we were at his parents and he ignored everyone because he was too engrossed in his phone and im fed up. I feel ignored. The problem is, in the past, he sits on his phone so I sit there and get my own phone out rather than cause an argument. Or in the evenings he will be on his computer so I come on here. He is right when he says that I am just as bad, although I feel the only reason I entertain myself with the internet is because he is engrossed in it and I am bored. I know there will be many people reading this and thinking 'why dont you just ask him to come off his phone/computer rather than go on yours' and you are right, but when I do that he gets annoyed and it usually starts an argument. I am so sick of arguing. I think what I am asking here is has technology been an issue for anyone else and how did you fix it? I need to talk to him about this but I need a plan so that I can broach it positively and not make him feel like it is yet another thing I am moaning about. I really want to save my marriage. There are more issues than this but I think this would be a good place to start. I should probably point out that he uses his phone and the internet to go on twitter, facebook and football forums. Im not worried that he is texting someone else or anything like that. He is a techno geek and is surfing the net. The issue is that the net is more interesting that me. Thanks in advance to anyone who reads this whole rambly post x