Quality Time

Cambridge Dictionary defines “Quality time" as the time that you spend with another person, giving him or her your full attention because you value the relationship. Quality time requires that you are in the moment, present, and focused on the other person—personal or professional. I turn off my iPhone or let it go to voice mail if I am giving quality time. It is just a little signal that right now the individual with whom I am communicating is the most important person in the world to me. You know how you feel when you looked forward to chatting with someone and every time the phone whines, beeps, rings, squeaks, or vibrates, that person picks up, regardless of where you were in the conversation. It signals that the person with whom you are spending time, believes someone else is much more important than you are at that moment. Unless it is a true emergency or a long distance call you are expecting from another country, the body-language message is that you are “less then . . . “ to them.