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This is a wordless comic strip titled or themed around **“Disconnect to Reconnect”**.
It tells a bittersweet, relatable story about a modern couple (most likely a husband and wife) who have gradually drifted apart because of smartphone addiction, and how a simple act of intentionally disconnecting brings them back together.

### The full story, panel by panel:

1. **Title card**: “Disconnect to Reconnect” – sets the moral.

2. The wife is driving, clearly annoyed, while the husband sits next to her completely absorbed in his phone, smiling at the screen instead of talking to her.

3. At night, the wife is waiting outside a building (probably a bar or restaurant). The husband is late because he’s still glued to his phone inside.

4. At the office, the husband is secretly playing on his phone under the desk while his angry boss glares at him.

5. One night the wife finally has enough. She turns the husband’s phone completely off while he isn’t looking.

6. The wife gets ready and goes out alone, putting on makeup, looking pretty and determined.

7. The husband comes home late from overtime, exhausted and stressed. Suddenly an invisible force (representing his phone addiction/withdrawal) starts “pulling” him, and he collapses in despair without his phone.

8. He panics, gets dragged across the floor, and is literally spun around by the craving.

9. The “force” finally flings him out the door into the night.

10. The wife, walking down the street, sees him stumbling toward her and catches him in her arms.

11. He’s dazed, sweating, disheveled, but now fully present. They embrace in the middle of the street.

12. Cut to them back home: the husband is again on the bed with his phone… but this time he’s happily playing a mobile game, ignoring the wife who’s getting ready in the mirror (the roles seem reversed for a second, but actually this is the “before” flashback or just showing the old pattern).

13.–16. They go out for late-night ramen together.
– At first the husband still instinctively reaches for his phone and plays secretly under the table.
– He wins a round and does a little fist pump, excited like a child.
– Then he gets nervous again and keeps playing.
– The wife just calmly keeps eating her ramen, unbothered, giving him space.

17. Eventually the husband puts the phone face-down on the table, sighs, and just watches his wife eating with a soft, loving smile.

18. The wife notices, pauses eating, a little shy or surprised.

19. He keeps staring at her warmly. She keeps eating, now with a tiny happy smile.

20. Suddenly he jolts in panic, realizing the phone is still there and he might relapse.

21. But in the last panel we see the wife has already quietly taken the phone away (or it’s simply not there anymore). The husband is left sitting peacefully, finally free, looking at his wife with full attention and a gentle, content expression.

### Moral of the story
Smartphones and endless scrolling can slowly kill real human connection, even in a marriage. Sometimes you have to forcefully “disconnect” from the digital world (symbolized by the wife turning the phone off) to remember how to truly “reconnect” with the people right in front of you.
Once the addiction is broken, even a simple bowl of late-night ramen together becomes romantic again.

It’s a sweet, slightly exaggerated, very East-Asian-style comic about digital detox and prioritizing real-life relationships over screens.

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