Potential solution; he can put hospital contacts on a special “ringer” in case there is a work emergency he needs to check, and everyone else, he can ignore until your conversation, dinner, etc is over to take a look at his phone.
My EX would do stuff like this, she'd insist we watch a TV show together, then sit on her phone facebook scrolling. I'd react like “oh no” and she'd look up and not know what's going on, then ask to rewind to watch that part again. It was super annoying, especially because I didn't particularly like many of her show choices.
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Potential solution; he can put hospital contacts on a special “ringer” in case there is a work emergency he needs to check, and everyone else, he can ignore until your conversation, dinner, etc is over to take a look at his phone.
My EX would do stuff like this, she'd insist we watch a TV show together, then sit on her phone facebook scrolling. I'd react like “oh no” and she'd look up and not know what's going on, then ask to rewind to watch that part again. It was super annoying, especially because I didn't particularly like many of her show choices.